Research Catalog

Title

Disturbances / Critical Art Ensemble ; text, Steve Kurtz ; edit, Lucia Sommer.

Author

Critical Art Ensemble.

Publication

• London : Four Corners Books, 2012.
• [New York] : Distributed in North America by Distributed Art Publishers.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Kurtz, Steve (Steven J.)
• Sommer, Lucia.
• Holmes, Brian (Brian Kent)

Description

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, color maps, portraits; 28 cm

Summary

"Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. 'Disturbances' is the first book to assess the group's 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives. In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects. 'Disturbances' is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics."--Publisher's web page.

Alternative Title

Critical Art Ensemble : Disturbances

Subject

• Critical Art Ensemble > Catalogs
• Critical Art Ensemble
• Critical Art Ensemble
• Multimedia (Art) > Catalogs
• Art > Political aspects > Catalogs
• Political activists > Catalogs
• Radical theater > Catalogs
• Critical theory > Catalogs
• Biotechnology > Social aspects > Catalogs
• Art > Political aspects
• Biotechnology > Social aspects
• Critical theory
• Multimedia (Art)
• Political activists
• Radical theater
• Mixed media
• Kunst
• Politik

Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Note

• "Text: Steve Kurtz."--Page [272].
• Introduction by Brian Holmes.
• Issued in slipcase.
• "Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. 'Disturbances' is the first book to assess the group's 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives. In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects. 'Disturbances' is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics."--Publisher's web page.

Contents

Ensemble -- 1.0. Ensemble -- 1.1. Video Shorts -- 1.2. Political Art in Florida -- 1.3. Live Art -- 1.4. Frontier Production -- 1.5. Cultural Vaccines -- Dominion -- 2.0. Dominion -- 2.1. Body Count and Flesh Frontiers -- 2.2. Shareholders' Briefing -- 2.3. Digital Resistance -- 2.4. Marching Plague -- 2.5.A Public Misery Message -- Fear -- 3.0. Fear -- 3.1. GenTerra -- 3.2. Target Deception -- 3.3. Radiation Burn -- 3.4. Mythic Weapons -- Resistance -- 4.0. Resistance -- 4.1. New Sex Experts -- 4.2. Looks Different, Tastes the Same -- 4.3. The Electronic Disturbance -- 4.4. Useless Technology -- 4.5. Electronic Civil Disobedience -- 4.6. Machine News -- 4.7. Child as Audience -- 4.8. Molecular Invasion -- 4.9. The Million Dollar Hoax -- Public -- 5.0. Public -- 5.1. Exit Culture -- 5.2. Bataille Goes Commercial -- 5.3. The International Campaign for Free -- Alcohol and Tobacco for the Unemployed -- 5.4. The Renaming Project -- 5.5. Concerned Citizens of Kyoto -- 5.6. Underground Tarot -- 5.7. Winning Hearts and Minds -- Geography -- 6.0. Geography -- 6.1. Halifax Begs Your Pardon -- 6.2. Molecular Invasion -- 6.3. Free Range Grain -- 6.4. Peep Under the Elbe -- 6.5. New Alliances -- Crime -- 7.0. Crime -- 7.1. Electronic Civil Disobedience -- 7.2. True Crime / Live Crime -- 7.3. Catch Me If You Can -- 7.4. All Apologies -- 7.5. Seized -- 7.6. Immolation -- Sickness -- 8.0. Sickness -- 8.1. Diseases of Consciousness -- 8.2. Flesh Machine -- 8.3. Radio Bikes -- 8.4. The Body Proud -- 8.5. Food for a Hungry World -- 8.6. The Concerns of a Repentant Galtonian -- Utopia -- 9.0. Utopia -- 9.1. Apocalypse and Utopia -- 9.2. Artists' Books -- 9.3. Piran Manifesto -- 9.4. Society for Reproductive Anachronisms -- 9.5. Intelligent Sperm Online -- 9.6. Cult of the New Eve.

ISBN

• 9780956192882
• 0956192882

OCLC

• ocn794363987
• 794363987
• SCSB-1668251

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library