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[ecrea] new book: New Media Futures - The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts

Fri Aug 10 15:59:02 GMT 2018



New publication from University of Illinois Press

*New Media Futures***

The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts

*Edited by Donna Cox, Ellen Sandor & Janine Fron***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/new-media-futures_*

Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago created an authentic, community-driven atmosphere of creative expression, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration that crossed gender lines and introduced artistically informed approaches to advanced research. Interweaving historical research with interviews and full-color illustrations, /New Media Futures/ captures the spirit and contributions of twenty-two women working within emergent media as diverse as digital games, virtual reality, medicine, supercomputing visualization, and browser-based art. The editors and contributors give voice as creators integral to the development of these new media and place their works at the forefront of social change and artistic inquiry. What emerges is the dramatic story of how these Midwestern explorations in the digital arts produced a web of fascinating relationships. These fruitful collaborations helped usher in the digital age that propelled social media.

Contributors: Carolina Cruz-Niera, Collen Bushell, Nan Goggin, Mary Rasmussen, Dana Plepys, Maxine Brown, Martyl Langsdorf, Joan Truckenbrod, Barbara Sykes-Dietz, Abina Manning, Annette Barbier, Margaret Dolinsky, Tiffany Holmes, Claudia Hart, Brenda Laurel, Copper Giloth, Jane Veeder, Sally Rosenthal, and Lucy Petrovic.

*Donna Cox*is the associate director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Research and Education, the eDream (the Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media) Institute, and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, and a professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. *Ellen Sandor*is the founding artist and director of (art)n, co-founder of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection, and advisory board chair at the Gene Siskel Film Center at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. *Janine Fron*is an independent game artist and researcher, cofounder of Ludica, and the creative director of (art)n.

With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers

*University of Illinois Press**| May 2018 | 328pp | 9780252041549 | Hardback | £32.00**

*Price subject to change.

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