Art as Organism
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Art as Organism

Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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Art as Organism

Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images – rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism.

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2015
ISBN
9780857728944

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author Bio
  3. Endorsement
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Images
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Preface: Modernism after the Affective Turn
  10. Introduction: The Haptic Unconscious: László Moholy-Nagy’s Organismic Aesthetics
  11. 1 Bauhaus Biology: The Beginnings of Biofunctionalism
  12. 2 György Kepes and the Light Image as Bio-Image: Pop Art-and-Science, Integration, and Distribution
  13. 3 The Distributed Image of the City: The Collaboration between György Kepes and Kevin Lynch
  14. 4 Wet Perception: Op Art and New Tendencies, between the Gestalt and Ecological Psychology
  15. 5 The Digital Image in Art: The Generative Turn, Computational and Biological
  16. Epilogue: Political Paths—Past and Future
  17. Glossary
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography