Nature /
edited by Jeff Kastner.
- London : Cambridge, Mass. : Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press, 2012.
- 239 pages ; 21 cm.
- Documents of contemporary art .
- Documents of contemporary art series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Material zones -- Imagination and matter / On the importance of natural disasters / In conversation with Dennis Wheeler / Systems aesthetics: conversation with Jeanne Siegel / Looking at, and overlooking, women working in land art in the 1970s / In conversation with Linda Montano / A nomad among builders / Scapeland / Between space and time / Flow city / Topologies: Michel Serres and the shapes of thought / Heather and Ivan Morison: Earthwalker / On TechnoSphere / Mind and body shifting: from networks to nanosystems / Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things / Curie's children / A brief history of art involving DNA / Gaston Bachelard -- Walter De Maria -- Robert Smithson -- Hans Haacke -- Suzaan Boettger -- Ana Mendieta -- Michael Auping -- Jean-François Lyotard -- David Harvey -- Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Steven Connor -- Emma Cocker -- Jane Prophet -- Victoria Vesna -- Jane Bennett -- Vilém Flusser -- George Gessert -- Interactive plant growing (1993) / Art that looks you in the eye / In conversation with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve / The extended body / Evolutionary ideas -- Creative evolution / The biosphere / Chance and necessity / Steps to an ecology of mind / The three great movements / The three ecologies / Nature and culture / Experimental geography / Remote possibilities: land art's changing terrain / On ecocivility / In conversation with Stefano Boeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist / Art in the age of technoscience / Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau -- Eduardo Kac -- Aziz + Cucher -- Oron Catts & Ionart Zurr -- Henri Bergson -- Vladimir Vernadsky -- Jacques Monod -- Gregory Bateson -- Arne Naess -- Félix Guattari -- Peter Halley -- Trevor Paglen -- Claire Bishop, Lynne Cooke, Tim Griffin, Pierre Huyghe, Pamela M. Lee, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andrea Zittel -- Helen & Newton Harrison -- Tomás Saraceno -- Ingeborg Reichle -- The history of telepresence: automata, illusion and rejecting the body / A cyborg manifesto / From psycho-body to cyber-systems: images as post-human entities / No ghost / Cognition and conscience -- The natural fantastic / What is it like to be a bat? / The animal that therefore I am / The open: man and animal / In conversation with Robert Rosenblum / In conversation / In conversation with Mark Dion / The world we live in is a revelation / Crossroads community (The Farm) / 7,000 oaks: conversation with Richard Demarco / Notes on art as/and land reclamation / In conversation with Fareed Armaly and Ute Meta Bauer / In conversation with Shane Danaher / Oliver Grau -- Donna Haraway -- Stelarc -- Tom McDonough -- Roger Caillois -- Thomas Nagel -- Jacques Derrida -- Giorgio Agamben -- Alan Sonfist -- Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman -- Andrew Ross -- herman de vries -- Bonnie Sherk -- Joseph Beuys -- Robert Morris -- Mel Chin -- Mary Mattingly -- In conversation with Tim Chamberlain / Please don't feed the animals / Marcus Coates / Rachel Berwick: Zugunruhe (2009) / Justine Cooper: the awe of natural history collections / Earth sound research revival: conversation with Jörg Heiser / The politics of life itself / Contestational biology / Zhao Renhui: The blind / Will non-humans be saved? : an argument in ecotheology / Biographical notes. Brandon Ballengée -- Jesse Ashlock -- Mark Sheerin -- Denise Markonish -- Carl Zimmer -- Henrik Håkansson -- Nikolas Rose -- Critical Art Ensemble -- Paul Tebbs -- Bruno Latour --
This anthology considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the post-war era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. It provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.
0262517663 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780262517669 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0854881964 (Whitechapel Gallery) 9780854881963 (Whitechapel Gallery)
(YBP)7320786
7320786 ybp
2011034641
GBB1E6178 bnb
015998310 Uk
Nature in art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.
BH301.N3 / N39 2012
111/.85
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Material zones -- Imagination and matter / On the importance of natural disasters / In conversation with Dennis Wheeler / Systems aesthetics: conversation with Jeanne Siegel / Looking at, and overlooking, women working in land art in the 1970s / In conversation with Linda Montano / A nomad among builders / Scapeland / Between space and time / Flow city / Topologies: Michel Serres and the shapes of thought / Heather and Ivan Morison: Earthwalker / On TechnoSphere / Mind and body shifting: from networks to nanosystems / Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things / Curie's children / A brief history of art involving DNA / Gaston Bachelard -- Walter De Maria -- Robert Smithson -- Hans Haacke -- Suzaan Boettger -- Ana Mendieta -- Michael Auping -- Jean-François Lyotard -- David Harvey -- Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Steven Connor -- Emma Cocker -- Jane Prophet -- Victoria Vesna -- Jane Bennett -- Vilém Flusser -- George Gessert -- Interactive plant growing (1993) / Art that looks you in the eye / In conversation with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve / The extended body / Evolutionary ideas -- Creative evolution / The biosphere / Chance and necessity / Steps to an ecology of mind / The three great movements / The three ecologies / Nature and culture / Experimental geography / Remote possibilities: land art's changing terrain / On ecocivility / In conversation with Stefano Boeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist / Art in the age of technoscience / Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau -- Eduardo Kac -- Aziz + Cucher -- Oron Catts & Ionart Zurr -- Henri Bergson -- Vladimir Vernadsky -- Jacques Monod -- Gregory Bateson -- Arne Naess -- Félix Guattari -- Peter Halley -- Trevor Paglen -- Claire Bishop, Lynne Cooke, Tim Griffin, Pierre Huyghe, Pamela M. Lee, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andrea Zittel -- Helen & Newton Harrison -- Tomás Saraceno -- Ingeborg Reichle -- The history of telepresence: automata, illusion and rejecting the body / A cyborg manifesto / From psycho-body to cyber-systems: images as post-human entities / No ghost / Cognition and conscience -- The natural fantastic / What is it like to be a bat? / The animal that therefore I am / The open: man and animal / In conversation with Robert Rosenblum / In conversation / In conversation with Mark Dion / The world we live in is a revelation / Crossroads community (The Farm) / 7,000 oaks: conversation with Richard Demarco / Notes on art as/and land reclamation / In conversation with Fareed Armaly and Ute Meta Bauer / In conversation with Shane Danaher / Oliver Grau -- Donna Haraway -- Stelarc -- Tom McDonough -- Roger Caillois -- Thomas Nagel -- Jacques Derrida -- Giorgio Agamben -- Alan Sonfist -- Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman -- Andrew Ross -- herman de vries -- Bonnie Sherk -- Joseph Beuys -- Robert Morris -- Mel Chin -- Mary Mattingly -- In conversation with Tim Chamberlain / Please don't feed the animals / Marcus Coates / Rachel Berwick: Zugunruhe (2009) / Justine Cooper: the awe of natural history collections / Earth sound research revival: conversation with Jörg Heiser / The politics of life itself / Contestational biology / Zhao Renhui: The blind / Will non-humans be saved? : an argument in ecotheology / Biographical notes. Brandon Ballengée -- Jesse Ashlock -- Mark Sheerin -- Denise Markonish -- Carl Zimmer -- Henrik Håkansson -- Nikolas Rose -- Critical Art Ensemble -- Paul Tebbs -- Bruno Latour --
This anthology considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the post-war era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. It provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.
0262517663 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780262517669 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0854881964 (Whitechapel Gallery) 9780854881963 (Whitechapel Gallery)
(YBP)7320786
7320786 ybp
2011034641
GBB1E6178 bnb
015998310 Uk
Nature in art.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.
BH301.N3 / N39 2012
111/.85