database aesthetics

Database Aesthetics; Issues of Orgarnization and Category in Online Art; AI & Society, The Journal of Human-Centered and Machine Intelligence

In an age in which we are increasingly aware of ourselves as databases, identified by social security numbers and genetic structures, it is imperative that artists actively participate in how data is shaped, organised, and disseminated. The collapse of the Berlin Wall, broken with the help of communication technologies, marked a beginning of collapse for many walls of categories. In this context, artists become information architects helping to usher in this new way of working, thinking, anticipating and helping to visualise new structures.

Database aesthetics
Design|Media Art 258: Links
Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Electronic Mediations) (Paperback)
Database Aesthetics; Art in the Age of Information Overflow by Victoria Vesna
Net Art 101; Database Aesthetics Sites & Readings