@article{1386259,
      recid = {1386259},
      author = {Kwastek, Katja,},
      title = {Aesthetics of interaction in digital art /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 357 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation  of the spectator have received extensive scholarly  attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media  still present a challenge for academic art history. In this  book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic  experience enabled by these new media works can open up new  perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike.  Kwastek, herself an art historian, offers a set of  theoretical and methodological tools that are suitable for  understanding and analyzing not only new media art but also  other contemporary art forms. Addressing both the  theoretician and the practitioner, Kwastek provides an  introduction to the history and the terminology of  interactive art, a theory of the aesthetics of interaction,  and exemplary case studies of interactive media art.  Kwastek lays the historical and theoretical groundwork with  discussions of processual strategies of twentieth-century  art and theories of aesthetic experience, process  aesthetics, play, and performance. She then develops an  aesthetics of interaction, discussing such aspects as real  space and data space, temporal structures, instrumental and  phenomenal perspectives, and the relationship between  materiality and interpretability. Finally, she applies her  theory to specific works of interactive media art,  including narratives in virtual and real space, interactive  installations, and performance - with case studies of works  by Olia Lialina, Susanne Berkenheger, Stefan Schemat, Teri  Rueb, Lynn Hershman, Agnes Hegedüs, Tmema, David Rokeby,  Sonia Cillari, and Blast Theory."--Pub. desc.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386259},
}