Machine Art in the Twentieth Century Andreas Broeckmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broeckmann, Andreas, author.

Series:

Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)

Leonardo book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Art and technology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 376 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally, Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prologue: first encounters

Introduction: the phantom of "machine art"

Toward the art and aesthetics of the machine

Algorithm machine

Image machine

Body machine

Ecology machine

Epilogue: fantasies of destruction.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-262-33611-1

0-262-33610-3

OCLC:

967704875