Art + DIY electronics / Garnet Hertz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hertz, Garnet, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and electronics.

Maker movement.

Arts--Experimental methods.

Arts.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Art and DIY electronics

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The first rigorous and systematic theory of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) electronic culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Beginnings: An Introduction to the DIY Mindset

0.1 A History of Electronic Art in the Twentieth Century

0.2 A Definition of DIY: Do + It + Yourself

Theme 1: Frugal Innovations

1.1 Frugality and the Demanufacturing Machine: Zombie Technology, Bricolage, and Hype Cycles

1.2 Frugality and Telephonic Arm-Wrestling: Jugaad, Finances, and Function

1.3 Frugality and the Toaster Project: Technical Disorientation, Device Paradigms, and Highlowness

Theme 2: Exploring Technologies

2.1 Exploration and the Incantor: Bending Circuits, Depunctualization, and Unblackboxing

2.2 Exploration and Wire Figures: Technologies, Interactivity, and Radio Shack Cybernetics

2.3 Exploration and 20 Oscillators in 20 Minutes: Technological Performance, Hedonization, and the Thrill of Impending Failure

Theme 3: Building Identities

3.1 Identity and Taratter MI-03: Device Art, Chindogu, and Alternative Presents

3.2 Identity and the Barbie Liberation Organization: Culture Jamming, Technical D├ętournement, and Mediagenics

3.3 Identity and the Stock Market Skirt: Gender, Telerobotics, and Clothing as Conversation

Theme 4: Anti-institutional Disobedience

4.1 Disobedience and Robot K-456: Wabi-sabi, Electronic Arte Povera, and Beautiful Mistakes

4.2 Disobedience and Hairbrain 2000: Burlesque Technologies, Highlowness, and Neoretroism

4.3 Disobedience and Feral Robotic Dogs: Hardware Activism, Communities, and Planned Obsolescence

Theme 5: Selling Out and Graffitiwriter

Conclusions: The DIY Mindset

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-262-36158-2

0-262-36157-4

OCLC:

1338166263