Poiesis and enchantment in topological matter / Sha Xin Wei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sha, Xin Wei.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Mathematics.

Art.

New media art.

Topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Movement and gesture are arguably essential aspects of engendering human experience. But rather than taking 'the body' or 'cognition' for granted as conceptual starting points, we attend to the substrate matter in which gesture takes shape and place. An experimental approach to such questions motivates the exploration of responsive, and in particular, computational media created for sustaining experientially rich, improvisational activity. This book explores rehearsed as well as unrehearsed activity in distributed, continuous fields of responsive media-topological matter.

Contents:

Introduction: why this book?

From technologies of representation to technologies of performance

Performance in responsive environments, the performative event

Substrate

Morphogenesis

Topology, manifolds, dynamical systems, measure, and bundles

Practices: apparatus and atelier

Effects.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-31891-1

OCLC:

869281839