Cross-Wired: Communication - Interface - Locality (Transcript) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719070368 ISBN 13: 9780719070365

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Art is integrally bound to the creation and dissemination of symbolic systems and rules. The codes are operated through a variety of media, and facilitate the functioning of a range of activities and exchanges such as computer programming, commerce, mobile communications, bureaucracy, education, entertainment and the art world itself. This volume looks at how one code "talks" to another code. "Conversations" between code systems take on a variety of forms: critical, constructive, disquieting, anarchic, destructive and humorous. The contributing artists do not simply subscribe to, or operate within the confines of, singular specific codes, but rather seek ways of working between them, of cross-wiring one system into another. This anthology of contemporary art will be of interest to readers who seek diagnostic insights into current creative processes.

About this title

About the Author

Kerstin Mey is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, both at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Simon Yuill is an artist working with software systems and is a Researcher in the School of Television and Imaging.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719070368
• ISBN 13: 9780719070365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Mey Kerstin, Yuill Simon