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Diffracting New Materialisms
This edited book considers the vital position of artistic research in the landscapes and ecosystems of new materialism(s) and post-humanism(s), in and for higher education. The book aims to satisfy an urgent desire for change in the ways we link artistic and critical research practices, asking what new ways of thinking and creating for twenty-first century artistic and educational contexts we need in order to address the kinds of global complexities we face. Organised around five key themes including fictioning, reading, embodying, inhabiting and folding, the book acts as an entry point for academics, artists and scholar-practitioners to participate in the shaping of new forms of artistic research and practice that are relevant, participatory, and that urgently address the kinds of complex issues emergent in our twenty-first century context. In doing so, the book makes a key contribution to the development of emerging inter- and transdisciplinary artistic research practices across arange of fields, responding to the question - what kinds of research and practice worlds do we wish to create in times of urgency, crisis and complexity?
Photographing Ambiguity
Photographing Ambiguity examines photography as a metaphor for technological culture, arguing that a relational exploration of the medium can shed light on the dominant ideological tendencies of our time. The book advocates for photographic practices that emphasize ambiguity, suggesting that this approach fosters more conscientious, ecological, and creative relationships within the technological ecosystem of contemporary life. Ted Hiebert critiques the notion that images should primarily serve to verify or document the external world. He contends that these quantifiable perspectives, while rooted in historical trends towards technology and data, have become so pervasive that they represent a dominant ideological bias in the twenty-first century. In response to this data-driven consciousness, the book presents a series of exercises designed to cultivate an embodied experience with digital living – not in opposition to the flood of images but within it. Ultimately, Photographing Ambiguity encourages readers to understand photographs not as benchmarks of reality but as ambiguous constructions of our present and future imaginaries.
Finance Aesthetics
A unique, critical, and creative encyclopedia from scholars, artists, and writers on the world and words of finance capital. What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted contemporary condition.
Cryptopolitics
Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, “cryptopolitics,” are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media toconsider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.
IGAV: 12 anni per gli artisti italiani nel mondo
L'Istituto Garuzzo per le Arti Visive - IGAV nacque nel 2005 per un'idea estemporanea di Giorgio e Rosalba Garuzzo, mentr'erano in giro per il mondo. "Ma perché - si chiesero - tanti artisti italiani delle nuove generazioni, così bravi, così impegnati, così creativi, fanno fatica a farsi conoscere ed emergere sulla scena internazionale, e tirano una vita grama, mentre sovente artisti stranieri ottengono miglior trattamento?" Ed ancora, immodestamente: "Se pochi ci pensano, perché non diamo una mano anche noi? Lasciamo altri a lamentarsi e proviamo a fare qualcosa..." . Dodici anni dopo, molto impegno dedicato e ingenti risorse investite dai soci fondatori, con il supporto di partner pub...
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Ecstasy
Published to accompany the exhibition held at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 9 October 2005 - 20 February 2006.
