{"id":2423,"date":"2025-09-29T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:10:59","slug":"encyclopedia-of-new-media-art-volume-ii-artists-and-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"Encyclopedia of New Media Art Volume II Artists and Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1951\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2427\" style=\"width:480px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-scaled.jpg 1951w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-229x300.jpg 229w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-780x1024.jpg 780w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-768x1008.jpg 768w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-1171x1536.jpg 1171w, http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/vol-11-1561x2048.jpg 1561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1951px) 100vw, 1951px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the editor of Volume II, my focus was on ARTISTS AND PRACTICE in new media art. Topics range across robotics, multimedia installation and performance, time-based and interactive art, social engagement, and hacking. Written by artists, activists and practitioners, the articles are in themed sections: new media art in context; new media art forms and process; new media art entropy; emergent media; new media art practice; information and systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was approached to be the ENMA in late \u00a02018, based on my proposal for Volume II, which was accepted. I went about the hard task of inviting authors to write 7500 words about related themes that I had selected for no financial reward except a copy of the volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the editor, I was keen to focus on the artist&#8217;s voice, seeking in-depth overviews of the area from the perspective of their own practice, but importantly in regard to the context of issues identified around\u00a0their particular theme.\u00a0Who were the artists, peers, theorists, technicians and facilities that were influencing their practice and the problems encountered with the ever-changing palette in the technological landscape?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paul Thomas Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art is available now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsburyvisualarts.com\/bloomsbury-encyclopedia-of-new-media-art\">online<\/a> and in print from December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the editor of Volume II, my focus was on ARTISTS AND PRACTICE in new media art. Topics range across robotics, multimedia installation and performance, time-based and interactive art, social engagement, and hacking. Written by artists, activists and practitioners, the articles are in themed sections: new media art in context; new media art forms and&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/?p=2423\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/visiblespace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}