Digital Art in Ireland - New Media and Irish Artistic Practice

This collection of essays explores digital art in Ireland. Comprising contributions from scholars and practitioners, it examines how new media technologies are shaping the island's contemporary artistic practices. As one of the first dedicated treatments of Irish digital art, it fills a major gap in the national media archaeology of Ireland.

List of contents

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction: Digital Art in Ireland, James O'Sullivan; Chapter 2. Strange Mothers: The Maternal and Contemporary Media Art in Ireland, EL Putnam; Chapter 3. Between Aesthetics and Institutions: Irish Electronic Poetry, Anne Karhio; Chapter 4. 'to shine upon the original all the more fully': Contemporary New Media Adaptations of James Joyce, Kenneth Keating; Chapter 5. Art in the Data-City: Critical Data Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Conor McGarrigle; Chapter 6. Experimental Arcade Video Games as Self-Reflexive Media Art, Kieran Nolan; Chapter 7. Folding, Unfolding, Refolding Sound, Claire Fitch; Chapter 8. Treacherous Images and Animal Gazes: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's Reports to an Academy, 2015, Kirstie North; Chapter 9. Pressing Send: Distribution and Curation in Irish New Media Art, Chris Clarke; Index.

About the author

James O'Sullivan lectures in digital humanities at University College Cork. He has authored a book (Towards a Digital Poetics) and edited several collections.

Product details

• Authors: James O'Sullivan, James O''''sullivan
• Assisted by: James O'Sullivan (Editor)
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781785274787
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-478-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Anthem Irish Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Digital, ART / Video Game Art, Art forms, Digital, video and new media arts, Computer game art, The arts: general topics, Computer game art; Digital; video and new media arts