What Is Cyberculture
Abstract
A book review of Piotr Zawojski’s Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii (Cyberculture. Syntopia of Art, Science and Technology, 2010). The book presents cyberculture as a reflexive cultural formation, whose specific form of expression is art (especially art based on the new media, i.e. cyberart), which also serves as a metalanguage, a site of experiments and a place of theory formation. The definition of cyberculture is problematic, because it undergoes unending transformations, moreover quite often this area is described within the categories of utopia or visions of the future. Zawojski tries to clear the area of research and define a new framework for it. The reviewer points to certain insights of the author and enters a polemic with them.
Keywords:
Piotr Zawojski, review, cybercultureReferences
Zawojski Piotr, Cyberkultura. Syntopia sztuki, nauki i technologii, Wydawnictwo Poltext, Uniwersytet Śląski, Warszawa 2010.
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Matylda Szewczykkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Badaczka kina i nowych mediów, autorka napisanej w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego pracy doktorskiej poświęconej kategorii wirtualności; w latach 2008-2009 stypendystka Fundacji Fulbrighta na University of Southern California w Los Angeles.
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