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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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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