Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder (eds.)

Feelings are always local

Design: Joke Brouwer, Illustrated (colour), Paperback, sewn, Size: 16 x 23 cm, 208 pages
Text in English, ISBN 90-5662-423-7 / 978-90-5662-423-1, € 27.50

In association with V2_Publishing

The classic definition of a system is anything that derives its coherence from the interaction between its parts. An open system (the term comes from biology) is any system that preserves its coherence by exchanging matter, energy and information with the environment. Interactive art organizes itself as an open system.

Interactive art is art whose state of rest must be disturbed before it can become art at all, but precisely this instability makes it ever more complex. 'Feelings are always local' is published on the occasion of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, DEAF04, which focuses on interactivity as open system and interactivity in open systems. DEAF04 features projects with a social and political slant as well as projects that have a technological or biological character. Central to all of them is an interactive art that functions as an open affective system, as a means of stirring emotions.

'Feelings are always local' includes essays, interviews and projects by important international theorists and artists who will be present at the festival or who have specially written a contribution for this book. The content of 'Feelings are always local' will therefore be of lasting interest and value.