The Landfall Online Review seems like an appropriate place to review The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader; an opportunity to consider the digital lay of the land from within. It is also a chance to touch on the critical realm of art online – and the factors that affect the discussion and dialogue that surround current commentary. Now readers have a chance to disseminate this review, and respond to it if they choose, on Facebook, Twitter, email, or on their blog. Yet, Landfall still exists in its printed format. And it has valid reasons to, just as there are valid reasons for the Digital Arts Reader to exist in print form. Published nearly two years ago, the book is now inevitably showing its age, but despite this it remains an extremely valuable publication in the national discourse. It is this messy crossover between media and formats that characterises the time and place that we occupy and it is these tensions that are played out frequently in The Reader.
Helter-skelter
The Landfall Online Review seems like an appropriate place to review The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader; an opportunity to consider the digital lay of the land from within. It is also a chance to touch on the critical realm of art online – and the factors that affect the discussion and dialogue that surround current commentary. Now readers have a chance to disseminate this review, and respond to it if they choose, on Facebook, Twitter, email, or on their blog. Yet, Landfall still exists in its printed format. And it has valid reasons to, just as there are valid reasons for the Digital Arts Reader to exist in print form. Published nearly two years ago, the book is now inevitably showing its age, but despite this it remains an extremely valuable publication in the national discourse. It is this messy crossover between media and formats that characterises the time and place that we occupy and it is these tensions that are played out frequently in The Reader.