Decolonizing science in Latin American art

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art explores art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists' kitchens

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Page, Joanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2021©2021, 2021
Series:Modern Americas
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index
  • I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice
  • II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture
  • 5 Interspecies communication and performance:
  • I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life
  • II. The language of cetaceans
  • III. Microbe music
  • 6 Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care:
  • I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation
  • II. Curation and care
  • 7 Sensory worlds and the pluriverse:
  • I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution
  • II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Intro
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 A planetary art beyond the human:
  • I. Inhuman agency
  • II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime
  • 2 The atmosphere as a planetary commons:
  • I. Breathing a common air
  • II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene
  • 3 Art and environmental change: beyond apocalypse:
  • I. Art and geodesign for climate change
  • II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience
  • 4 Science in an ecology of knowledges