Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art / Joanna Page.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Page, Joanna, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Latin American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2021.

Summary:

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art explores art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists' kitchens.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 A planetary art beyond the human:

I. Inhuman agency

II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime

2 The atmosphere as a planetary commons:

I. Breathing a common air

II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene

3 Art and environmental change: beyond apocalypse:

I. Art and geodesign for climate change

II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience

4 Science in an ecology of knowledges: I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice

II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture

5 Interspecies communication and performance:

I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life

II. The language of cetaceans

III. Microbe music

6 Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care:

I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation

II. Curation and care

7 Sensory worlds and the pluriverse:

I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution

II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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