{"product_id":"at-a-distance-precursors-to-art-and-activism-on-the-internet-9780262532853","title":"At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Annmarie Chandler | Norie Neumark\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe theory and practice of networked art and activism, including mail art, sound art, telematic art, fax art, Fluxus, and assemblings.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNetworked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance--geographical, temporal, or emotional--theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. By providing a context for this work--showing that it was shaped by varying mixes of social relations, cultural strategies, and political and aesthetic concerns--\u003ci\u003eAt a Distance\u003c\/i\u003e effectively refutes the widely accepted idea that networked art is technologically determined. Doing so, it provides the historical grounding needed for a more complete understanding of today's practices of Internet art and activism and suggests the possibilities inherent in networked practice. \u003ci\u003eAt a Distance\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus. Although the projects differed, a conceptual questioning of the \"art object,\" combined with a political undermining of dominant art institutional practices, animated most distance art. After a section that sets this work in historical and critical perspective, the book presents artists and others involved in this art \"re-viewing\" their work--including experiments in \"mini-FM,\" telerobotics, networked psychoanalysis, and interactive book construction. Finally, the book recasts the history of networks from the perspectives of politics, aesthetics, economics, and cross-cultural analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46891580293271,"sku":"9780262532853","price":6829.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262532853.webp?v=1770275033","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/at-a-distance-precursors-to-art-and-activism-on-the-internet-9780262532853","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}