<nettime-ann> Art et Internet - Auteur(s) : Jean-Paul FOURMENTRAUX

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Art et Internet
Auteur(s) : Jean-Paul FOURMENTRAUX

Préface de Antoine HENNION
Postface de Howard BECKER

Editions du CNRS, 2010
ISBN : 978-2-271-07099-9
Format : 14 x 22 cm - 285 pages

http://www.cnrseditions.fr/Communication/6319-art-et-internet-jean-paul-fourmentraux.html

A écouter : "Qu'est-ce qu'une oeuvre Net art ?"   -   France Culture   
-  Emission Place de la Toile du 28 novembre 2010
http://www.franceculture.com/emission-place-de-la-toile-qu-est-ce-qu-une-oeuvre-de-net-art-la-modelisation-des-imaginaires-2010-1

Since the mid 1990s, the Internet has brought profound changes in the  
creation and circulation of the contemporary arts. During this time,  
“artistic creation” of a more collective and interdisciplinary nature  
began to foreshadow future uses of the Internet. This book analyses  
the dynamics and tensions arising from the linking of technological  
research and artistic innovation, examining the emergence of an arts  
world that centred on the Internet and the way new conventions became  
established in ways of working and in cultural exchanges. What  
triggers the bringing into being of art? What is the meaning of  
authorship? What new ways of exhibiting and receiving art are being  
imagined?

Net art is a collective work that brings in artists and computer  
specialists, technical configurations and ritualised social occasions.  
By following Net Art from design through to layout and exhibition, we  
are able to see how a multi-dimensional project builds up –  
programmes, interfaces, images, systems – where the issues concerning  
inter-relationships and collaboration are generating new relationships  
between art, techniques and society. For although conventional  
conceptions of art are changing, this does not mean that “Net Art” –  
often described as “immaterial” - is leading to the disappearance of  
objects, since its effect, on the contrary, is to multiply the  
fragments of “artists’ work” that have the potential to become “works  
of art”.

The author puts forward a typology of these works of art and an  
analysis of their “social career”, bringing into perspective the new  
patterns of circulation and the new tools and strategies employed to  
bring them to the public, whether as exhibitions or marketable  
commodities. By focusing on “works of art at work”, this book provides  
an insight into both work on a work and the workings of a work.

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Jean-Paul FOURMENTRAUX

Maître de Conférences à l’Université de LILLE 3 / GERIICO

Centre d'études sociologiques et politiques Raymond Aron



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