Experience : culture, cognition, and the common sense / Jones Mather Uchill, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Caroline A., editor, author.

Mather, David (Art historian), editor, author.

Uchill, Rebecca, 1978- editor, author.

Center for Art, Science & Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), supporting body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experience.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

351 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Distribution:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by The MIT Press, [2016]

Summary:

Experience offers a reading experience like no other. A heat-sensitive cover by Olafur Eliasson reveals words, colors, and a drawing when touched by human hands. Endpapers designed by Carsten Holler are printed in ink containing carefully calibrated quantities of the synthesized human pheromones estratetraenol and androstadienone, evoking the suggestibility of human desire. The margins and edges of the book are designed by Tauba Auerbach in complementary colors that create a dynamically shifting effect when the book is shifted or closed. When the book is opened, bookmarks cascade from the center, emerging from spider web prints by Tomas Saraceno. Experience produces experience while bringing the concept itself into relief as an object of contemplation. The sensory experience of the book as a physical object resonates with the intellectual experience of the book as a container of ideas. Experience convenes a conversation with artists, musicians, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and neuroscientists, each of whom explores aspects of sensorial and cultural realms of experience. The texts include new essays written for this volume and classic texts by such figures as William James and Michel Foucault.

Contents:

I. Opening. Modeling / Caroline A. Jones ; Mediating / Rebecca Uchill ; Analogies / David Mather

II. Seeing. Amphibian / Tauba Auerbach ; Processing / Bevil R. Conway ; Mathematizing / Alma Steingart ; Moralizing / Michael Rossi

III. Sounding. Closed book / Alvin Lucier ; I am sitting in a room / Alvin Lucier ; Music for solo performer / Alvin Lucier ; Resonance / Alvin Lucier, Brian Kane ; Feeling / Adam Frank ; Modulating / Mara Mills ; Transducing / Stefan Helmreich

IV. Sensing. Actions / Tomás Saraceno ; Social strings / Tomás Saraceno ; Intuiting / Josh Tenenbaum ; Tracking / Natasha Schüll ; Sense of self / Leah Kelly ; Lightning / Douglas Kahn ; Understanding / Alva Noë

V. Experiencing. On experience / Tino Sehgal, Arno Raffeiner ; Bodily framing / Vittorio Gallese ; "Consciousness" / William James ; Visual and tactual / Edmund Husserl ; Having an experience / John Dewey ; Experience process: space poems / Renée Green ; Experience book / Michel Foucault, Duccio Trombadori ; Historicizing experience / Joan W. Scott ; Aisthesis / Jacques Rancière ; Sensitizing / Bruno Latour ; Waiting for Gaïa / Bruno Latour.

Notes:

"This book was supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology"--Page 2.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262035149

0262035146

OCLC:

953566083