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Through the Scope of Life
This book offers intriguing philosophical inquiries into biotechnological art and the life sciences, addressing their convergences as well as their epistemic and functional divergences. Rooted on a thorough understanding of the history of philosophy, this work builds on critical and ontological thought to interpret the concept of life that underscores first-hand dealings with matter and experimentation. The book breaks new ground on the issue of animality and delivers fresh posthumanist perspectives on the topics addressed. The authors embark on a deep ontological probe of the concept of medium as communication-bridging and life-bearing. They also take on the concept of performativity as biotechnological art. The book includes concrete, well-documented case studies and shows how certain narratives and practices directly impact ideas surrounding science and technologies. It will interest philosophers in art and technology, aesthetics, ontology, and the life sciences. It will also engage art practitioners in art and science, curators and researchers.
Life Is Other
Between animate and inanimate matter This book presents artistic and theoretical positions that deal with the dynamics of and points of transition between animate and inanimate matter. Following on from the exhibition Holobiont: Life Is Other (Bregenz/Vienna, 2021/2022), it explores how art, philosophy, and the technological sciences destabilize and expand the concept of living things. How do biological entities, machines, media, architectures, networks develop symbiotically in the context of biotechnological possibilities and ecological challenges? The Holobiont theory of biologist Lynn Margulis opens up new perspectives on life as a cooperative, holistic system: The "other" is not assimilated, integrated; instead it is preserved in its unavailability and peculiarity as new connections emerge. Selection of current artistic works on a/biotic processes Contextualization by contemporary theorists and artists Contributions by Bruno Clarke, Monika Bakke, Eduardo Kac, Dorion Sagan, Astrid Schrader, Paul Vanouse, and others.
Art and knowledge after 1900
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms. The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take seriously?
Art as Capital
In global terms, creative industries are on the rise, as are new media investigations in art and initiatives that encourage innovation in the arts, for end-use in the economy. However, there is a significant lack of critical reflection on this form of creative production. This important book points out the dangers and downfalls that accompany such a boom of the creative industries and the subordination of art to the economy and politics. Specifically, it shows that art, as a mode of social and aesthetic practice, is losing the very thing which it has striven for so desperately in the course of modernity: its independence from other spheres of human activity.
Encuentros de animales
Animales hay por todas partes. Pertenecen a la historia de la humanidad y a nuestra propia identidad. Pertenecen a la historia del mundo y de la vida. Su presencia constante no significa que tengamos la sensibilidad adecuada para mirarles y entenderles. El mundo hiper-urbanizado de ciertas sociedades contemporáneas en el llamado antropoceno evita que podamos ver y escuchar lo animal. A menudo, está reducido a una idea general de «naturaleza», para la que ya no tenemos guías de interpretación. El sonido de los pájaros en las ciudades está aplanado en una especie de ruido, y no sabemos distinguir el canto de diferentes aves o sus muchos sentidos. Las plantas que nos rodean son también un todo indiferenciado, pocas sabemos reconocer y llamar por su nombre.Encuentros de animales esun recorrido de voces, experiencias y aproximaciones. El libro reúnediecinueve textos que, desde las artes, las ciencias y las humanidades, se dan a la tarea de cuestionar crítica y reflexivamente qué ocurre con la animalidad, para desde ahí y poco a poco comenzar a abrir caminos del pensar y modos de la sensibilidad para establecer otro trato con lo natural.
Co_Existence
Katalog skupinske razstave štirih uveljavljenih intermedijskih umetnikov Boris Beja, Maja Smrekar, Urša Vidic, Miha Godec. Štirje uveljavljeni intermedijski umetniki (večina ustvarja na stičišču umetnosti, znanosti in novih tehnologij) v svojih najnovejših projektih na temo razmerja etika-civilizacija-okolje razmišljajo o nekaterih ključnih segmentih razmerja med človekom in naravo, ki so družbo pripeljali do roba dopustnega ravnanja z okoljem. Štiri sicer različne umetniške prakse povezuje skupna pozicija in odnos do problematike naše skupne prihodnosti onkraj trenutnega antropocentrizma, kjer človek mora sestopiti iz nadrejene pozicije v vključujoč odnos z naravo, saj predstavlja le delček našega celotnega ekosistema.
Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding
Responding to the most widely read breastfeeding manual, La Leche League's The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Robyn Lee's The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding explores breastfeeding as an art that must be developed through skillful application of effort and distinguished from a merely natural or physiological process. The Ethics and Politics of Breastfeeding challenges the dominant understanding of breastfeeding and cultivates an alternative conception as an ethical, embodied practice of the self. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, and Luce Irigaray, Lee develops a new understanding of breastfeeding as an "art of living," where the practice is reconsidered in the light of ongoing social inequalities.
Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe
The annexation of Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere after World War II dramatically reshaped popular understandings of the natural environment. With an eco-critical approach, Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe breaks new ground in documenting how filmmakers increasingly saw cinema as a tool to critique the social and environmental damage of large-scale projects from socialist regimes and newly forming capitalist presences. New and established scholars with backgrounds across Europe, the United States, and Australia come together to reflect on how the cultural sphere has, and can still, play a role in redefining our relationship to nature.
Artists Remake the World
An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism Artists Remake the World introduces readers to the political ambitions of contemporary art in the early twenty-first century and puts forward a new, wide-ranging account of art’s political potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven art, socially engaged art, and ecological art, the book explores how artists have attempted to offer bold solutions to the world’s problems. Vid Simoniti offers original perspectives on contemporary art and its capacity as a force for political and social change. At its best, he argues, contemporary art allows us to imagine utopias and pre...
Teaching, Research, Innovation and Public Engagement
This volume is a unique compendium of professional and practical knowledge on new paradigms and approaches in Teaching, Research, Innovation and Public Engagement that is currently missing from the Higher Education market. The intended audience includes healthcare, biomedical and physical sciences discipline specialists active in teaching, along with their students, science communicators associated with the above subjects and academics involved in relevant research/innovation. Its contents will be organised under the following three themes: 1) Scholarship of Teaching and Learning discussing pertinent knowledge, in this area, and inspiring educators to pursue similar medical humanities endeav...
