Alien agency experimental encounters with art in the making

"In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art - the 'stuff of the world' - behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying thse works - all t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salter, Chris
Other Authors: Pickering, Andrew (author of afterword)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts The MIT Press 2015
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Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art - the 'stuff of the world' - behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying thse works - all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and technology - allows him to focus on practice through the experiential and affective elements of creation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observation and on his own experience as an artist, Salter investigates how researcher-creators organize the conditions for these experimental, performative assemlages that sidestep dichotomies between subjects and objects, human and nonhuman, mind and body, knowing and experiencing."
Physical Description:xiii, 311 pages illustrations
ISBN:9780262323598
0262323591