Research Guides: Creative Technologies: Get Started

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This research guide points to different resources to support your work in Creative Technologies -- including tips for finding books, using databases, streaming video, and more. Use the menu to the left of the page to navigate through the information. If you get stuck in your research process or want to learn more about using the library, please visit the front desk in the Art & Architecture Library or in Newman Library. Someone will be glad to help you.

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User	Book Limit	Checkout Duration
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Graduate	100	6 months
Faculty & Staff	150	1 year

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Not Sure Where to Start? Try These Books

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today by Eva Respini
Call Number: NX180.I57 A77 2018

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Black Lives Matter, the internet's promise to foster communication across borders and democratize information has evolved alongside its rapidly developing technologies. While it has introduced radical changes to how art is made, disseminated, and perceived, the internet has also inspired artists to create inventive and powerful work that addresses new conceptions of community and identity, modes of surveillance, and tactics for resistance.
Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century by Lauren Cornell
Call Number: e-book

Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium—with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.
New Media Art by Reena Jana (Editor); Uta Grosenick (Editor)
Call Number: N6490 .T74 2006

This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology around issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and the public domain.
Art and the Internet by Phoebe Stubbs (Editor); Domenico Quaranta; Joanne McNeil
Call Number: N7433.8 .A75 2013

Art and the Internet is a much-needed visual survey of art influenced by, situated on and taking the subject of the internet over the last two and a half decades. Featuring newly commissioned essays and interviews and a selection of reprinted essays and manifestos, Art and the Internet examines the legacy of the internet on art, and illuminates how artists and institutions are using it and why.
Art and Electronic Media by Edward A. Shanken
Call Number: N7433.8 .A78 2009

A timely survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, including mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the web.
Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art by Katja Kwastek
Call Number: e-book

An art-historical perspective on interactive media art that provides theoretical and methodological tools for understanding and analyzing digital art. Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja Kwastek argues that the particular aesthetic experience enabled by these new media works can open up new perspectives for our understanding of art and media alike.