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A capsule aesthetic : feminist materialisms in new media art / Kate Mondloch.
Fine Arts Library N72.F45 M66 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mondloch, Kate, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism and art.
- New media art--Themes, motives.
- New media art.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch examines how new media installation art intervenes in the fields of technoscience and new materialism, showing how three diverse artists-Pipilotti Rist, Patricia Piccinini, and Mariko Mori-contribute to the urgent conversation about everyday technology and the ways it constructs our bodies. A Capsule Aesthetic establishes the unique insights that feminist theory offers to new media art and new materialisms, offering a fuller picture of human-nonhuman relations. In-depth readings of works by Rist, Piccinini, and Mori explore such questions as the role of the contemporary art museum in our experience of media art, how the human is conceived of by biotechnologies, and how installation art can complicate and enrich contemporary science's understanding of the brain. With vivid, firsthand descriptions of the artworks, Mondioch takes the reader inside immersive installation pieces, showing how they allow us to inhabit challenging theoretical concepts and nonanthropomorphic perspectives. Striving to think beyond the anthropacentric and fully consider the material world, A Capsule Aesthetic brings new approaches to questions surrounding our technology-saturated culture and its proliferation of human-to-nonhuman interfaces. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: new media art and new materialisms after feminism
- Thinking through feminism: the critical legacy of 1970s and 1980s feminist media art and theory
- Critical proximity: Pipilotti Rist's exhibited interfaces and the contemporary art museum
- Unbecoming human: Patricia Piccinini's bioart and postanthropocentric posthumanism
- Mind over matter: Mariko Mori, art history, and the neuroscientific turn
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mondloch, Kate. Capsule aesthetic.
- ISBN:
- 9781517900496
- 1517900492
- 9781517900489
- 1517900484
- OCLC:
- 1001905788
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