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Machines as Agency
. Ed(S): Lischka, Christoph; Sick, Andrea
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Description for Machines as Agency
Paperback. Supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology; and transgressing traditional principles and styles of research. This book suggests a transdisciplinary network that prefers to avoid traditional dualisms like nature and culture, subjects and objects as well as man and machine. Editor(s): Lischka, Christoph; Sick, Andrea. Num Pages: 194 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology - transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated "laboratory of the future". Instead of relying on traditional dualisms like nature-culture, subject-object, as well as man and machine, heterogeneous networks with humans and non-humans (Latour) are opened in shared contexts of agency. New momentary propositions are developed, meeting the complexity of discovering, exploring, and inventing - things: things which do not exist just as given beings. The artists and theoreticians can pursue using the tools and techniques ... Read more
This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology - transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated "laboratory of the future". Instead of relying on traditional dualisms like nature-culture, subject-object, as well as man and machine, heterogeneous networks with humans and non-humans (Latour) are opened in shared contexts of agency. New momentary propositions are developed, meeting the complexity of discovering, exploring, and inventing - things: things which do not exist just as given beings. The artists and theoreticians can pursue using the tools and techniques ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783899426465
SKU
V9783899426465
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About . Ed(S): Lischka, Christoph; Sick, Andrea
Christoph Lischka is professor of »Poietic Machines« (Autoaktive Systeme) at the University of the Arts Bremen. His current focus of research is the relation between the Arts and Convergent Technologies (NBIC). Andrea Sick is professor of Cultural Studies and Media Theory at the University of the Arts Bremen. Her topics include relations between technological media and cultural production.
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