Article: Reconsidering Database Form: Input, Structure, Mapping
Abstract
In this essay, I argue against Lev Manovich's theorization of the database, and resultant critiques of mapping art. Suggesting that database form necessarily involves intricate interrelations of data in a rigid, predetermined structure, I propose that the general divide between content and form proposed by Manovich is at least an oversimplification, and at most erroneous. I take issue with Manovich's designation of mapping art as "anti-sublime," suggesting that it is instead the inputting of data into a database that can be considered "anti-sublime" in Manovich's terms.
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LeMay, Matthew: Reconsidering Database Form: Input, Structure, Mapping. In: Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien, Jg. 7 (2005), Nr. 2, S. 1-10. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17683.
@ARTICLE{LeMay2005,
 author = {LeMay, Matthew},
 title = {Reconsidering Database Form: Input, Structure, Mapping},
 year = 2005,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17683}",
 volume = 7,
 address = {Providence},
 journal = {Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien},
 number = 2,
 pages = {1--10},
}
 author = {LeMay, Matthew},
 title = {Reconsidering Database Form: Input, Structure, Mapping},
 year = 2005,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17683}",
 volume = 7,
 address = {Providence},
 journal = {Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien},
 number = 2,
 pages = {1--10},
}
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