@article{1387769,
      recid = {1387769},
      author = {Andersen, Christian Ulrik, and Pold, Søren,},
      title = {The metainterface : the art of platforms, cities, and  clouds /},
      pages = {1 online resource (248 pages).},
      abstract = {How the interface has moved from the PC into cultural  platforms, as seen in a series of works of net art,  software art and electronic literature. The computer  interface is both omnipresent and invisible, at once  embedded in everyday objects and characterized by hidden  exchanges of information between objects. The interface has  moved from office into culture, with devices, apps, the  cloud, and data streams as new cultural platforms. In The  Metainterface , Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Bro Pold  examine the relationships between art and interfaces,  tracing the interface's disruption of everyday cultural  practices. They present a new interface paradigm of cloud  services, smartphones, and data capture, and examine how  particular art forms -- including net art, software art,  and electronic literature -- seek to reflect and explore  this paradigm. Andersen and Pold argue that despite  attempts to make the interface disappear into smooth access  and smart interaction, it gradually resurfaces; there is a  metainterface to the displaced interface. Art can help us  see this; the interface can be an important outlet for  aesthetic critique. Andersen and Pold describe the  "semantic capitalism" of a metainterface industry that  captures user behavior; the metainterface industry's  disruption of everyday urban life, changing how the city is  read, inhabited, and organized; the ways that the material  displacement of the cloud affects the experience of the  interface; and the potential of designing with an awareness  of the language and grammar of interfaces.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387769},
}