Research Catalog

Title

Machine art in the Twentieth Century / Andreas Broeckmann.

Author

Broeckmann, Andreas

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

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Details

Description

x, 376 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift." -- Publisher's description

Series Statement

Leonardo

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art and technology
• Art, Modern > 20th century > Themes, motives
• Art and technology
• Art, Modern > Themes, motives
• Art et technologie
• Art > 20e siècle > Thèmes, motifs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-365) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the phantom of "machine art" -- Toward the art and aesthetics of the machine -- Algorithm machine -- Image machine -- Body machine -- Ecology machine -- Epilogue: fantasies of destruction.

ISBN

• 9780262035064 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262035065 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2016017052
• 40026701607

OCLC

• 946160416
• SCSB-10187006

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library