Research Catalog

Title

Plants by numbers : art, computation and queer feminist technoscience / edited by Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard.

Publication

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Pritchard, Helen V.
• Prophet, Jane, 1964-

Description

xix, 263 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Summary

"This open access book takes a queer feminist technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard/software. Artists, feminist techno-scientists and theorists working with computation, Plants by Numbers address the current need to think beyond the human paradigm, opening up new fields of debate that question the troubled relationship between ecosystems and human technology. Organised around three key themes - techno-nature entanglements, plants as resistant agents, and becoming-with-plants - the volume provides a vital pathway through complex theoretical ideas that inform the practices of artists working in the fields of computation and ecology. Taking art theoretical and art practice approaches, contributors describe how we might design, make and imagine computational processes differently, or otherwise, through the co-production of artworks with plants. The authors show how these artworks open up new potentialities, and anti-colonial perspectives in the ways they engage with the contested sites of knowing and unknowing in technoscience. Describing in detail how we might design computational processes differently, the book shows how these artworks might act as communicative media between the biological and technological, thus opening up new potential areas of research whilst producing new ethical-political engagements"--

Series Statement

Biotechne: interthinking art, science and design

Subject

• Art and technology
• Art and natural history
• Human-plant relationships
• Lesbian feminist theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Co-operating with Diatoms -- queer fabulations of a world feeling computing / Helen V. Pritchard (HGK-FHNW, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Northwestern Switzerland -- Forests that Compute / Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge, UK) -- Codely Phytographia: an artist's material history of writing code with trees / Jane Prophet (University of Michigan, USA)

Call Number

JQE 24-299

ISBN

• 9781350343252
• 1350343250
• 9781350344969
• 1350344966
• 9781350344938 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350344945 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781350351042 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023001632

OCLC

1378192944

Title

Plants by numbers : art, computation and queer feminist technoscience / edited by Jane Prophet and Helen V. Pritchard.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Biotechne: interthinking art, science and design

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pritchard, Helen V., editor.

Prophet, Jane, 1964- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Plants by numbers London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350344938 (DLC) 2023001633

Research Call Number

JQE 24-299