[ecrea] New Title: ART PLATFORMS and Cultural Production on the Internet

Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet

Olga Goriunova
Routledge, 2011

ISBN 978-0415893107

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893107/

In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that 
produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, 
developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach 
brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, 
the author introduces the concept of the art platform, a specific 
configuration of creative passions, codes, events, individuals and works 
that are propelled by cultural currents and maintained through digitally 
native means. Art platforms can occur in numerous contexts bringing 
about genuinely new cultural production, that, given enough force, come 
together to sustain an open mechanism while negotiating social, 
technical and political modes of power.

Software art, digital forms of literature, 8-bit music, 3D art forms, 
pro-surfers, and networks of geeks are test beds for enquiry into what 
brings and holds art platforms together. Goriunova provides a new means 
of understanding the development of cultural forms on the Internet, 
placing the phenomenon of participatory and social networks in a 
conceptual and historical perspective, and offering powerful tools for 
researching cultural phenomena overlooked by other approaches.

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Dr. Olga Goriunova
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