Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, Susan Charlton (eds.)
Alex Adriaansens, Sher Doruff, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Lev Manovich, Brian Massumi, Anne Nigten and Joel Ryan

Making Art of Databases

Paperback, sewn, illustrated (colour), 112 pages, size: 16 x 20 cm
text in English, ISBN 90-5662-309-5 / 978-90-5662-309-8, € 21.00

NAi Publishers in cooperation with V2_Publishing

In recent centuries a whole range of exact systems has been developed in order to describe and categorize spoken and written communication: phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, semantically, pragmatically, stylistically.

However, there is nothing similar for visual and audio communication. Though the importance of these media has increased dramatically over the last 200 years, no systems have been developed to describe image and sound with the same precision as is possible for the spoken and written word. During a series of masterclasses the participants attempted to develop various systems for the deployment of archives and databases in the work of artists, with the goal of developing interactive, dynamic artworks in which the database plays an active role in the creation of the work.
In this publication, specialists in the fields of image, sound and interaction - Lev Manovich, Sher Doruff, Joel Ryan and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer together with Brian Massumi - share their visions for the use of databases and archives in their particular area of expertise, and they use inspiring projects from the masterclass to demonstrate how artists tackle this.

The masterclasses that were the inspiration for this publication were organized by V2_ in association with the Zentrum für Kunst and Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Center in Linz, and the Center for Culture and Communication (C3) in Budapest.

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