Abstract
About 20 years ago, the ecology of media art practices proliferated in two domains: those that attached themselves to high technology labs or companies like Xerox PARC, and those that took advantage of personal computing to form collectives only loosely coupled to academic institutions or disciplines. In this essay, I closely examine the diverse epistemic cultures and diverse technical, political, and generational interests in such "cyber-anarchist" networks. I sketch the economy of knowledge in recent media arts and technology communities of practice in the wake of Open Source. I use as my lens the experience of creating a responsive media space called the TGarden, with a collective that gathered more than 26 artists and engineers from 11 institutions and 7 nations.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 133-145 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | AI and Society |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Art and technology
- Autonomous production
- Knowledge economy
- Media art
- Open source
- Responsive environments
- Science and technology studies
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Artificial Intelligence