Please join us for the New Zealand Launch of the Aotearoa Digital
Arts Reader
15th August at 5.30pm
at
St Paul St. Gallery
34 St Paul St,
Auckland Central
with a simultaneous launch at the
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
The Octagon
Dunedin
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The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader
Edited by Stella Brennan and Su Ballard
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Available: 15 August 2008
ISBN: 978-09582789-9-7
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Softcover, 170 x 240 mm
240 pages
150 colour images
English
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Book launch special: NZD$50
Recommended Retail Price: NZD$60
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In this comprehensive anthology editors Stella Brennan and Su Ballard
present essays, artists’ pageworks and personal accounts exploring
the production and reception of contemporary digital art. Ranging
from research into the preservation of digital artworks to the
environmental impact of electronic culture, from discussions of lo-
tech aesthetics to home gaming, and from sophisticated data mapping
to pre-histories of new media, this book presents a screen grab of
digital art in New Zealand.
All contributors are members of Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA), New
Zealand’s only digital artists’ network. With its mix of work by
practitioners, theorists and educators, this reader presents current
thinking about digital art in Aotearoa, reflecting the politics of
location, yet is highly relevant to the wider contexts of digital
media art and culture. The compilation is an essential resource
locally and an important tool for the dissemination of New Zealand’s
digital arts practice internationally.
Introducing sculptor and film-maker Len Lye as a vital pre-cursor to
current practice, and ranging from histories of early computer
programming and gaming to analysis of environmental concerns and the
social implications of new media, the book takes a snap shot of
digital practices through the lens of New Zealand’s leading digital
arts network – ADA.
Much of the technology used in media art is cutting edge, but this
does not mean that the technology itself is uncritically celebrated.
Rather, as the book shows, a critique of technology is central to
artists’ uses and approaches. The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader
presents challenges and questions, provoking readers to think in
fresh ways about the technologies they engage with on a daily basis.
Texts by: Adam Hyde, Andrew Clifford, Caroline McCaw, Danny Butt,
Douglas Bagnall, Eu Jin Chua, Helen Varley Jameison, Jacquie Clarke,
Janine Randerson, Julian Oliver, Julian Priest, Karl D.D. Willis,
Kurt Adams, Lissa Mitchell, Maree Mills, Melanie Swalwell, Morgan
Oliver, Sally Jane Norman, Sean Cubitt & Bevin Yeatman, Stella Brennan,
Stephen Cleland, Su Ballard, Trudy Lane & Ian Clothier, Vicki Smith
& Adam Hyde, Zita Joyce
Designed by Jonty Valentine
'The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader' will be available from selected
bookshops and www.clouds.co.nz.
For further information visit:
www.clouds.co.nz/the-aotearoa-digital-arts-reader
www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz
For retail trade distribution enquiries please contact:
Clouds publishing
PO Box 68-187
Newton, Auckland 1145
+64 9 309 2604
www.clouds.co.nz
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