Cornell L., Halter E. (eds.) Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century

Boston: The MIT Press, 2015 — 528 p. — ISBN10: 026202926X; ISBN13: 978-0262029261.Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium -- with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies. Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as "postinternet." Other contributions analyze and document particular works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao Fei, the Radical Software Group, and others. Mass Effect relaunches a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary culture once again.Hard Reboot: An Introduction to Mass EffectDo You Believe in Users?
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Doing Assembly
Dispersion
Two Statements on Carnivore
Digressions from the Memory of a Minor Encounter
The Different Worlds of Cao Fei
Net Aesthetics 2.0 Conversation, New York City, 2006: Part 1 of 3
Aleksandra Domanovic and Oliver Laric in Conversation with Caitlin Jones
A Brief History and/or Gallery
Internet Explorers
Lost Not Found
"We Did It Ourselves!" AKA "My Favorites"
Excerpts from Post Internet
In the Long Tail
Everybody's Autobiography
A Theorem
The Centaur and the Hummingbird
The Visibility Wars
Trevor Paglen in Conversation with Lauren Cornell
What to Do With Pictures
Net Aesthetics 2.0 Conversation, New York City, 2008: Part 2 of 3
Citizens Reporting and the Fabrication of Collective Memory
International Art English
Chronicle of a Traveling Theory
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
Next-Level Spleen
Digital Divide
Sweeping, Dumb, and Aggressively Ignorant! Revisiting "Digital Divide"
Art Workers
Black Vernacular
A Selection from DISimages: New Stock Options
Made of the Same Stuff
Post-Net Aesthetics Conversation, London, 2013: Part 3 of 3
Here I Am
Internet State of Mind
Too Much World
Bodies in Space
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