Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art

Soares, Celia · Simão, Emília

jun. 2020 · IGI Global

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New media has been gaining importance in the academic world as well as the artistic world through the concept of new media art. As the connections between art and communication technologies grow and further embrace a wide range of concepts, interpretations, and applications, the number of disciplines that will be touched will likewise continue to expand.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on New Media Art is a collection of innovative research on the methods and intersections between new media, artistic practices, and digital technologies. While highlighting topics including audience relationship, digital art, and computer animation, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, high-level art students, and art professionals.

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Celia Soares is a university professor and researcher. Is Invited Professor at Higher School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Maia (IPMAIA), Portugal and invited Professor at the Communication Sciences and Information Technologies Department, University Institute of Maia (ISMAI), Portugal. She focuses and develops her research in the “Information and Communication in Digital Platforms” area - “Information Systems and Usability” context. She is involved in practice-based research on projects such as “teaching foreign language for children with dyslexia using immersive technologies and Virtual reality” and she also develops research focused on digital art preservation in ObEmMa - Scientific Observatory of Electronic Music and Media Art - UP (Porto University). She is member of CITCEM-Digital Culture Research Department (UP), Portugal, CITEI - Research Center for Technologies and Intermedia Studies (ISMAI), Portugal and Ni2- Research Center (IPMAIA), Portugal.

Emília Simão is Vice-Director and Professor of Multimedia and Arts at Gallaecia University (ESG) and also invited Professor of Multimedia at Portuguese Catholic University (FFCS-UCP) and Visual Aesthetics at Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (ESECD-IPG). PhD in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms by Porto University (UP), MSc in Multimedia by the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP) and Art Studies by the Superior Artistic School of Porto (ESAP). She focuses her research on Electronic Music, EDMC, Underground Music Scenes, Post-modern Aesthetics, Media Arts, Art and Technology, Digital Culture and New Media. Coordinator of ObEMMA-Scientific Observatory of Electronic Music and Media Art, member of CITCEM-Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Culture, Space and Memory (UP) and CiESG-Research Center on Multimedia and Arts (ESG), Portugal. [Editor]