Critical strategies in art and media

About this book

As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation? Are there any strategies that can elude being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism? Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new terrains and flows?