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Beyond Mimesis and Convention
Representation is a concern crucial to the sciences and the arts alike. Scientists devote substantial time to devising and exploring representations of all kinds. From photographs and computer-generated images to diagrams, charts, and graphs; from scale models to abstract theories, representations are ubiquitous in, and central to, science. Likewise, after spending much of the twentieth century in proverbial exile as abstraction and Formalist aesthetics reigned supreme, representation has returned with a vengeance to contemporary visual art. Representational photography, video and ever-evolving forms of new media now figure prominently in the globalized art world, while this "return of the r...
The Materiality of Color
The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color's complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color's materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.
Phenomenal
“The Light and Space movement—of great importance to my development as a young artist—is far more than a valid art historical reference. It translates matters of psychology, phenomenology, criticality, emotional investment, and now-ness into an immaterial language that is both subversive and compelling. Light and Space is as contemporary as ever.” —Olafur Eliasson
Nervous Systems
The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking. Demonstrating the continuing relevance of systems aesthetics within contemporary art, the contributors highlight the ways that artists adopt systems thinking to address political, social, and ecological anxieties. They cover a wide range of artists and topics, from the performances of the Argentinian collective the Rosario Group and the grid drawings of Charles Gaines to the video art of Singaporean artist Charles Lim and the mapping of global logistics infrastructures by contemporary artists like Hito Steyerl and Christoph Büchel. Together, the essays offer an expanded understanding of systems aesthetics in ways that affirm its importance beyond technological applications detached from cultural contexts. Contributors. Cristina Albu, Amanda Boetzkes, Brianne Cohen, Kris Cohen, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Christine Filippone, Johanna Gosse, Francis Halsall, Judith Rodenbeck, Dawna Schuld, Luke Skrebowski, Timothy Stott, John Tyson
Ruth Schnell – WORKBOOK
Hybrid spatial installations Ruth Schnell’s work interrogates historical concepts of reality that are now being called into question by apparative perception. In the field of media art, Schnell has made a significant contribution to the understanding of this radical transformation: she has gone beyond the moving image, involved viewers in a participatory manner, and expanded object-like or sculptural art into immersive environments. Deeply inscribed in her artistic approach is the reference to sociopolitical questions and the latest developments in technology. The monograph offers a documentary reappraisal and contextualization of Ruth Schnell’s work since 1983 and provides stimulus for enhancing competence in the field of media. 40 years of media art production open up new paths and dimensions in a singular way Extensive section on the body of work; with prefaces by Peter Weibel and Katharina Gsöllpointner, as well as contributions by Claudia Giannetti, Chris Salter, and Jill Scott Digital link to the artist’s video archive via QR codes
Circulation of works of art in the revolutionary era, 1789-1848
Etude des effets des mutations et des conflits armés sur l'économie de l'art, les institutions culturelles et le goût en France, en Europe et en Amérique à partir de la Révolution française et au début du XIXe siècle. L'ouvrage montre comment la Révolution a transformé la relation à l'art par la mise en circulation rapide de nombreuses oeuvres et par la constitution de l'idée de patrimoine.
Chicago Art Journal
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The Art Bulletin
Includes section: Notes and reviews.
Nothing to Look at
This dissertation posits situational form as a means of analyzing art in terms of its perceptual and emotional properties. I show how Los Angeles-based "light and space" artists understood the material of their work to consist of embodied states in specific contexts. This viewpoint coincides with, and arises from, developments in psychology in the 1960s and early 1970s where behaviorism (excluding subjective states from its studies) was supplanted by neuropsychology (literally incorporating subjectivity). By foregrounding parallels between light and space art and neuropsychology I offer a new epistemology for considering artistic practice and scientific inquiry as functioning in tandem.
