[spectre] 'Art, Time and Technology' - New Book + Talk Announcement

[Gere, Charlie]

Below is an announcement of a new book on art and technology, 
published this month, and a related talk at the Institute for 
Contemporary Arts in London on the 30th May

Art, Time and Technology
By Charlie Gere
Published by Berg in May 2006
Hardback
£50.00
ISBN 1845201345
Paperback
£16.99
ISBN 1845201353

Art, Time and Technology examines the role of art in an age of 'real 
time' information systems and instantaneous communication. The 
increasing speed of technology and of technological development since 
the early nineteenth century has resulted in cultural anxiety. 
Humankind now appears to be an ever-smaller component of dauntingly 
complex technological systems, operating at speeds beyond human 
control or even perception. This perceived change forces us to 
rethink our understanding of key concepts such as time, history and 
art. Art, Time and Technology explores how the practice of art - in 
particular of avant-garde art - keeps our relation to time, history 
and even our own humanity open. Examining key moments in the history 
of both technology and art from the beginnings of industrialization 
to today, Charlie Gere explores both the making and purpose of art, 
and how much further it can travel from the human body.
This is the first book that critically situates the technologies of 
real-time computing within the broader discourses of visual and media 
history. From Jack Burnham to John Cage, Leroi-Gourhan to Marshall 
McLuhan, and Les immateriaux to Stanley Kubrick, Gere challenges us 
to consider the role of the entire apparatus of communication in the 
ongoing construction of art as information processing system.
Barbara Maria Stafford, author of Devices of Wonder: From the World 
in a Box to Images on a Screen

About the author

Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research at Lancaster University 
and is the author of Digital Culture

http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book_page.asp?BKTitle=Art,%20Time%20and%20Technology#

Art at the Edge of Time

Talk and Discussion
Institute for Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Tue 30 May 2006.
19:00
Nash Room
The average newscast these days is likely to report the outbreak of a 
new computer virus or a new technique for growing bodily organs. In 
an age when technology seems increasingly to have a mind of its own, 
art offers an important check on technology's relentless 
proliferation. This dialogue between new media artist-curator Jon 
Ippolito and scholar Charlie Gere probes the seismic shift in art's 
role during a time of accelerated change.
The participants will draw on research from two books just published 
this spring. At the Edge of Art (Thames & Hudson), by Joline Blais 
and Jon Ippolito and Art, Time and Technology, by Charlie Gere (Berg 
Press). Both books are available from the ICA bookshop with a 10% 
discount for ICA members.
Jon Ippolito is Assistant Curator of Digital Arts at the Guggenheim 
Museum, New York, and director of The Pool, an online arts group.
Charlie Gere is Reader in New Media Research at Lancaster University 
and is the author of Digital Culture.
Art at the Edge of Time is part of the Man Machine Season
Full Price : £5.
ICA Members : £4.
http://www.ica.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14895
(In lieu of a more formal book launch for Art, Time and Technology 
please join me for a drink in the ICA bar after the talk on the 30th)


Charlie Gere
Reader in New Media Research
Director of Research
Institute for Cultural Research
Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YL UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 594446
E-mail: c.gere at lancaster.ac.uk
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/staff/gere.php