
Alien Agency : Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making.
Title:
Alien Agency : Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making.
Author:
Salter, Chris.
ISBN:
9780262323598
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- I Resonances -- 1 Hearing Perspectives -- 2 From Agency to Practice -- 3 Green Belts in Goethe's City -- 4 Stories Told of Sonic Reals -- 5 Four Ears, or Listening as Making -- 6 Can Architecture Hear? -- 7 Hearing View -- 8 Affects and Atmospheres -- 9 Tuning -- II Cellular Vitality -- 1 A Living Machine? -- 2 Suspicions of a Wet Kind -- 3 Experiments in a Lab at the End of the World -- 4 The Tissue Culture Point of View - Part I -- 5 Techniques for Immortality -- 6 The Tissue Culture Point of View - Part II -- 7 Surface Tensions -- 8 The Tissue Culture Point of View - Part III -- 9 A Tutorial on Muscle-Cell Energetics -- 10 Where the Art Is . . . -- 11 The Tacit Knowing of Tissue -- 12 A Revealing School Seminar -- 13 Goals and Purposes -- 14 Tissue Culture Hands On -- 15 Life's Triumph in the Dish -- 16 Eight Failed Experiments in Substrate Sketching -- 17 Reflections on Bare Life at the Bench -- 18 Collagen Trials While the Clock Ticks -- 19 Suspension -- 20 Is Life in Bodies? -- III Sensorium -- 1 Limens -- 2 Mediations of Sensation -- 3 Three Tensions -- 4 Four Seminars in Sensory Experience -- 5 Translation and Enactment -- 6 Atmospheres Unveiled -- 7 Technologies of the Senses -- 8 Seeding Alter -- 9 How to Invoke the Cosmos -- 10 Experience Near-Far -- 11 The Missing Sense -- 12 The Conditions of Sensory Assemblage -- 13 Displace -- 14 "Death, Limbo, and then Heaven down the Hall" -- 15 Is Sense in Culture? -- Conclusion: Is the World a Laboratory? -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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