Being material / edited by Marie-Pier Boucher, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill, and Evan Ziporyn.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Boucher, Marie-Pier, editor.

Helmreich, Stefan, 1966- editor.

Kinney, Leila W., editor.

Tibbits, Skylar, editor.

Uchill, Rebecca, 1978- editor.

Ziporyn, Evan, editor.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Art, Science & Technology, sponsoring body, host institution.

Conference Name:

Being Material (2017 : Cambridge, Mass.) http://viaf.org/viaf/17155042695672400590, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial products--Computer-aided design--Congresses.

Commercial products.

Art objects--Computer-aided design--Congresses.

Art objects.

Commercial products--Computer-aided design--Pictorial works.

Art objects--Computer-aided design--Pictorial works.

Digital media--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Digital media.

Senses and sensation--Philosophy--Congresses.

Senses and sensation.

Materialism--Congresses.

Materialism.

Material culture--Congresses.

Material culture.

Genre:

Pictorial works

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In 1995, MIT's Nicholas Negroponte predicted that "being digital" would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world. Two decades later, our everyday lives are indeed ever more suffused by computation and calculation. But unwieldy materiality persists and even reasserts itself. At the intersection of art, science and technology, "Being Material" revisits Negroponte's prediction by exploring new and unexpected convergences between the digital and the material in the practices of artists, designers, engineers and scientists who work with programmable matter, self-assembling structures, 3D/4D printing, wearable technologies and bio-inspired design. This book will radically intervene into the understanding of how material dynamics limit, expand, transform, and/or vivify our biological, social and political lives. "Being Material" will revisit the history of material science (particularly at MIT), contribute to "new materialism" in critical theory, and place both projects in dialogue with kindred and contrasting philosophy, art practice and critique. The editors and contributors refine and expand on such cross-field investigations by developing a contrast among five different material genealogical lineages: programmable, wearable, livable, invisible, and audible"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Being Material, an Introduction p.11 / Marie-Pier Boucher, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill, and Evan Ziporyn

PROGRAMMABLE

Introduction p.14 / Skylar Tibbits

Ferrite Cores, Whirlwind Computer Project: The Materials of Memory p.16 / Deborah G. Douglas

Code as Material p.20 / Ben Fry and Casey Reas

Frugal Science in the Age of Curiosity p.26 / Manu Prakash, Jim Cybulski, Rebecca Konte, Team Foldscope and the global Foldscope community

Machine Agency p.30 / Nadya Peek

Another Matter: Notes on Worldeating p.34 / Benjamin H. Bratton

Interdigitation p.43 / Tom Özden-Schilling

WEARABLE

Introduction p.46 / Leila W. Kinney

The Materials of Immateriality: Hussein Chalayan's Fashion p.50 / Michelle Tolini Finamore

Yarn-dez-vous, 2014 p.62 / Azra Aksamija

Crafting Material, Being Material p.66 / M. Amah Edoh

HAPIfork and the Haptic Turn in Wearable Technology p.70 / Natasha D. Schull

The Algorithms Have Eyes Hyphen-Labs p.76 / Ashley Baccus-Clark, Ece Tankal, Nitzan Bartov, Carmen Aguilar y Wedge

Beyond Wearables: The Future Is Fleshy p.80 / Christina Agapakis and Lucy McRae

Interweaving p.95 / Tom Özden-Schilling

LIVABLE

Introduction p.98 / Rebecca Uchill and Stefan Helmreich

Microuniverse p.102 / Tal Danino

Being Material Beings p.108 / Claire Pentecost

That Touch of Money p.112 / Bill Maurer

Standing Rock: Selma Moment for the Environmental Justice Movement p.120 / Winona LaDuke, illustrated by Sarah LittleRedfeather

Interleaving p.127 / Tom Özden-Schilling

INVISIBLE

Introduction p.130 / Stefan Helmreich and Rebecca Uchill

Ways of Absence: or, The Unbearable Heft of Materialized p.134 / Sandy Alexandre

Invisible Images p.140 / Lisa Parks in conversation with Trevor Paglen

Mediating Animal-Infrastructure Relations p.144 / Lisa Parks

Persistent Ephemeral Pollutants p.154 / Nicholas Shapiro

To See or Not to See? Dilemmas in Imaging and Intelligence p.162 / George Barbastathis

Interstitial p.169 / Tom Özden-Schilling

AUDIBLE

Introduction p.172 / Evan Ziporyn

On "Land? p.174 / Evan Ziporyn in conversation with Dewa Alit

Air p.176 / Maya Beiser

Magnetic Resonances p.178 / Arnold Dreyblatt

Born-Digital Musical Instruments p.180 / Victor Gama

Hey Exit: Every Recording of Gymnopedie 1 / Brendan Landis

Vessels: Being as Material p.186 / Grace Leslie

Musical Trojan Horse: Uncontrollable Sounds p.188 / Pawel Romanczuk

Gymnopedie Z (Erik Satie, arr. Ziporyn) p.190 / Evan Ziporyn

Outroduction p.193 / Marie-Pier Boucher

Biographies p.197.

Notes:

Based on a April 21-22, 2017 symposium entitled Being Material, sponsored by The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology.

"The front cover and select pages of this book are designed to interact with its companion website. Visit http://beingmaterial.mit.edu using any camera-enabled phone and point the camera at: 1. Interactive cover: At the top of the front cover, grab the edge of the green card and slide vertically. The website is programmed to interact with the dynamic color arrangements. 2. Select interior pages: Articles with the URL at the top of the page have more digital content accessible. The website will be able to detect these pages and display the additional material" -- Front dust jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Being Material (2017 : Cambridge, Mass.). Being material.

ISBN:

9780262043281

0262043289

OCLC:

1086502277

Publisher Number:

40029464935

Online:

Companion website