{"product_id":"ecologies-of-artistic-practice-isbn-9780262552165","title":"Ecologies of Artistic Practice","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at how we make and circulate art today, and how creative and economic processes shape the meaning and value of artworks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEcologies of Artistic Practice\u003c\/i\u003e, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate a means to make art in a neoliberal creative economy. Wong looks at the diverse ways in which artworks circulate, both online and offline, in galleries, on digital platforms, and on media facades, and investigates some of the mechanisms that enable artists to create works, including selling artworks and NFTs, grants, licensing, commissions, and artist residencies. The book also looks at the ways in which artists collaborate with corporations and develop practices as commercial entities themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book provides unique insights into the diverse creative and economic processes that shape the meaning and value of artworks. Wong seeks to shift away from notions of individual authorship and finite artworks that can be bought and sold, and instead toward an understanding of artistic practices as collaborative, social, and cultural processes. Rather than critique this economy, \u003ci\u003eEcologies of Artistic Practice\u003c\/i\u003e opens space for engaging in hypercommercialized contexts, while considering how money is not an end goal, but a means to initiate or continue an artistic process.Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Thinking Economies Ecologically\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Precarity and Conditions of Disempowerment\u003cbr\u003eDiverse Economies of Art and Technology\u003cbr\u003eEcologies of Artistic Practice\u003cbr\u003eProcesses of Making, Circulating and Organizing\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: The Means to Make\u003cbr\u003eLorna Mills: The Separation of “Art” and “Work”\u003cbr\u003eonformative: Carving Out a Practice Between Art and Design\u003cbr\u003eLoVid: Shaping the Organization of Time and Labor\u003cbr\u003eFacilitating Knowledge Flows\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Circulating in Post-Media Art Markets\u003cbr\u003eEmpty Gallery: The Variable Materialities of Conceptual Art\u003cbr\u003eLicensing: Towards A Plural Conception of the Art Object\u003cbr\u003eTRANSFER: Experiments with Distribution Formats for Immersive Media\u003cbr\u003eFrom Ownership to Circulation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Between Scarcity and Free Circulation in Digital Economies\u003cbr\u003eLorna Mills: GIFs as Poor Images and High Art\u003cbr\u003eSedition: Creating Artificial Scarcity\u003cbr\u003eNFTs and The Financialization of Art\u003cbr\u003eBeyond Scarcity, Towards Abundance\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Mechanisms of Corporate Patronage\u003cbr\u003eLicensing for Media Facades\u003cbr\u003eBrand Commissions\u003cbr\u003eCorporate Artist Residencies\u003cbr\u003eThe Artist and the Corporation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Collaborative Production\u003cbr\u003eXu Zhen: The Art of Incorporating\u003cbr\u003eteamLab: Large Scale Artistic Collaborations\u003cbr\u003eMetaObjects: Art Fabricators as Mediators\u003cbr\u003eThe Company as Collective\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Artistic Practices in Process\u003cbr\u003eProcesses over Products\u003cbr\u003eArtworks in Permutation\u003cbr\u003eCollaborative Cultures\u003cbr\u003eShifting Roles, Fluid Identities\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex“This book offers a vital exploration of how artists navigate the intersection of art, technology, and commerce in a rapidly evolving creative economy. Thoughtful and deeply researched, it redefines artistic practice as a dynamic and collaborative process entangled with the economy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joasia Krysa, Professor of Exhibition Research, Director of the Institute of Art and Technology, and Head of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University\u003c\/b\u003eAshley Lee Wong is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of MetaObjects, a studio facilitating digital production with artists and cultural institutions.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301867344101,"sku":"NP9780262552165","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262552165.jpg?v=1767725854","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ecologies-of-artistic-practice-isbn-9780262552165","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}