Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon : The Birth of Form.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Río, Elena del.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Jointly explores Bill Viola's video art and Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation through their shared understanding of the interpenetration of nature and technology.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert Simondon

Part I: Nature's Gestures

1 Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum

2 Artful Politics of Nature

Intermezzo: Video and the Digital Convergence

Part II: More-than-Human Ecologies

3 Affective Ecologies, a People to Come

4 Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion

5 Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation

6 Mental Ecologies, Transversal Cinema

Coda: A Journey Backwards Is a Journey Forward

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: del Río, Elena Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon

ISBN:

9781399554794

OCLC:

1541773240