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

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.

---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------