Poiesis and enchantment in topological matter / Sha Xin Wei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sha, Xin Wei, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Mathematics.

Art.

New media art.

Topology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]

System Details:

text file

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:

1 Why This Book? 1

2 From Technologies of Representation to Technologies of Performance 19

3 Performance in Responsive Environments, the Performative Event 63

4 Substrate 89

5 Ontogenesis 123

6 Topology, Manifolds, Dynamical Systems, Measure, and Bundles 161

7 Practices: Apparatus and Atelier 203

8 Refrain 249.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262318914

0262318911

OCLC:

869281839

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.