Systems (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262527197 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Lev Manovich, Professor in Computer Science, City University of New York Graduate Center, and author of The Language of New Media)Many have argued that what an artwork does -- or how it behaves within or even as generator of a system -- is more significant than what it is. Edward Shanken gives us an important document for aiding such contemporary labours. The intensities of globalization demand a heightened sense of the interconnectedness of technologies and bodies, nations and economies, as well as the aesthetic productions that labour on the field of public life. To better understand the possible futures of art, you need to know the stuff in this book. If you want to understand where today's culture came from, you must read this. (Brandon LaBelle, author of Background Noise: Pe
In the late 1950s, experiments such as the cybernetic sculptures of Nicolas Schöffer or the programmatic music compositions of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis transposed systems theory from the sciences to the arts. Mitchell, Gordon Pask, Nick Prior, Francisco Varela, Heinz von Foerster, Michael Weinstock, Norbert Wiener. Crutchfield, Boris Groys, Francis Halsall, Usman Haque, N. Buckminster Fuller, Jack Burnham, Fritjof Capra, Geoff Cox, James P. Katherine Hayles, Caroline Jones, Stephen Jones, Christian Katti, Bruno Latour, Mary Louise Lobsinger, James Lovelock, Niklas Luhmann, H
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He is the editor of Roy Ascott's collected writings, Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness and the author of Art and Electronic Media.. Shanken is Visiting Associate Professor, DXARTS, University of Washington. Edward A