Thursday, November 26, 2009

Databases Aesthetics




My friend Hans Witschi is an amazing artist who writes code as beautifully as he paints.

His work has been painstakingly documented in an impressive image database he has been constructing, and I have asked him to give you a behind-the-scenes tour of it.

Bibliography:

Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Edited by Victoria Vesna. Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Fraser, Gray. “The National Library and Archives of Canada’s Exclusionary Policies in Regards to their Definition of Artists’ Books.” Umbrella, 30: no2 (1 Jun, 2007).

Hilderbrand, Lucas. Inherent Vice. Duke NC: Duke University Press, c2009.

New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art. Edited by Christiane Paul. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, c2008.





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