Alien agency : experimental encounters with art in the making /

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"In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art - the 'stuff of the world' - behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying thse works - all t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salter, Chris, 1967- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Pickering, Andrew, 1948- (writer of afterword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Temas:
Artificial life.
Experience.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Technology > Philosophy.
Tissue culture > Philosophy.
Senses and sensation.
Sensation
Vie artificielle.
Expérience.
Technologie > Philosophie.
Tissus (Histologie) > Culture > Philosophie.
Sens et sensations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
ART > Digital.
Artificial life
Experience
Senses and sensation
Technology > Philosophy
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Art
ARTS/Art Theory & Criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Resonances :
  • 1. Hearing Perspectives
  • 2. From Agency to Practice
  • 3. Green Belts in Goethe's City
  • 4. Stories Told of Sonic Reals
  • 5. Four Ears, or Listening as Making
  • 6. Can Architecture Hear?
  • 7. Hearing View
  • 8. Affects and Atmospheres
  • 9. Tuning
  • Part II. Cellular Vitality :
  • 1. A Living Machine?
  • 2. Suspicions of a Wet Kind
  • 3. Experiments in a Lab at the End of the World
  • 4. The Tissue Culture Point of View
  • Part I
  • 5. Techniques for Immortality
  • 6. The Tissue Culture Point of View
  • Part II
  • 7. Surface Tensions
  • 8. The Tissue Culture Point of View
  • Part III
  • 9. A Tutorial on Muscle-Cell Energetics
  • 10. Where the Art Is ...
  • 11. The Tacit Knowing of Tissue
  • 12. A Revealing School Seminar
  • 13. Goals and Purposes
  • 14. Tissue Culture Hands On
  • 15. Life's Triumph in the Dish
  • 16. Eight Failed Experiments in Substrate Sketching
  • 17. Reflections on Bare Life at the Bench
  • 18. Collagen Trials While the Clock Ticks
  • 19. Suspension
  • 20. Is Life in Bodies?
  • Part III. Sensorium :
  • 1. Limens
  • 2. Mediations of Sensation
  • 3. Three Tensions
  • 4. Four Seminars in Sensory Experience
  • 5. Translation and Enactment
  • 6. Atmospheres Unveiled
  • 7. Technologies of the Senses
  • 8. Seeding Alter
  • 9. How to Invoke the Cosmos
  • 10. Experience Near-Far
  • 11. The Missing Sense
  • 12. The Conditions of Sensory Assemblage
  • 13. Displace
  • 14. "Death, Limbo, and then Heaven down the Hall"
  • 15. Is Sense in Culture?
  • Conclusion: Is the World a Laboratory?

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