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Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism (Q2115)

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Literary Art in Digital Performance: Case Studies in New Media Art and Criticism
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    2009
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    978-0-826-43600-9
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    699321714
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    If a name could convey the fusion of literature and art beyond media, it would connect to earlier traditions that harbored the same aesthetic and poetic aspirations. (English)
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    ...despite these essays' general aversion to affirming underlying conditions of art or literature, often remaining largely within situational description, there are nonetheless strong traces of thematic constitution of experience which, being theatrical, literary, poetic, or aesthetic, beg the question of what common conditions allow such experience to acquire this character. (English)
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    ...in this balance of authorial predisposition, toward which logic or tradition does the preponderance of media art theory appear to be leaning? In electronic art and literature, the answer depends upon whether one's critical gaze falls on the aesthetic mechanism of an electronic work, or on the aesthetic experience of what it generates. (English)
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    When the common word in the oft-used terms, 'work of art' or 'literary work' becomes reference to a verb, rather than an object, its signified must be regarded as both. (English)
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    Neither indexical, nor instrumental, nor of figuration, although assuming all of these directions, the digital work of art rather uses its anti-realist form as argument for metaphoricality, for a way of thinking about post-industrial being in relationship to persistent shifts and realignments, conceptually comparable to the way that contemporary art selects the signs implied by the materials and … (English)
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