What is Cyberculture. Cover Image

Czym jest cyberkultura.
What is Cyberculture.

Author(s): Matylda Szewczyk
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Cyberculture; Zawojski Piotr

Summary/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.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 80
  • Page Range: 228-232
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish