Associate
Professor
He is a well-known cultural critic who writes regularly for a range of
national and international publications on issues to do with cyberculture,
new media arts and critical and cultural theory. Teaching Cultural Convergence Research Formerly an editorial correspondent for 21C magazine, he is a member of the editorial boards of Postmodern Culture, Continuum. The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, fibreculture journal, Rhizomes and RealTime, where he is a commissioning editor for new media arts. His most recent book is Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (Power Publications/MIT Press, 2003), edited with Annemarie Jonson and Alessio Cavallaro.
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Media arts have become the most public and accessible form of inquiry into the interface between society, culture and technology. The impact of digital technologies has been profound and new disciplines of inquiry have emerged over the last twenty years in response to the overall "computerisation" of society. Media artists are at the forefront of this inquiry in both their use of new media and their aesthetic exploration of its effects. interzone presents the first comprehensive overview of the development of media arts culture in Australia. It critically discusses the work of established and emerging media artists and the contexts out of which their work has developed. interzone explores, through the work of more than 70 artists, the emergence of key concepts such as interactivity, interface and immersion. It is wide-ranging in its attention to aesthetic forms that have developed in relation to computer-based media, such as net art, virtual reality environments, digital video, multimedia installation and interactive fiction. interzone was published in November 2005 by Thames & Hudson Australia.
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