Nervous systems art, systems, and politics since the 1960s

"The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking. Demonstrating the continuing relevance of systems...

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Other Authors: Gosse, Johanna (Editor), Stott, Tim (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2022, ©2022
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art
  • Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott
  • Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics
  • Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising Systems Aesthetics
  • Luke Skrebowski
  • The Artist as "Weatherman": Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology
  • John Tyson
  • Desalineacion: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucuma̹n Arde
  • Christine Filippone
  • Nervous Interfaces
  • The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines
  • Kris Cohen
  • Light and Space as Institutional Critique
  • Dawna Schuld
  • One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems
  • Cristina Albu
  • The Contemporary Art World Described as a System
  • Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick's Disappointing Systems
  • Francis Halsall
  • Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin's The Arctic Is . . .
  • Amanda Boetzkes
  • Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore
  • Brianne Cohen
  • Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution
  • Complexes
  • Jaimey Hamilton Faris