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  • Automotive Prosthetic

    Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art

    In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technology—the relationships between identity and the mechanizations that have become extensions of the self. Focusing on one of humanity’s most ubiquitous machines, Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art combines critical theory and new media theory to form the first ... Read more

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  • Crises Then as Now

    Marshall McLuhan, with Urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and Artist Gyorgy Kepes

    Series Book 15 - Understanding Media Ecology
    This book explores how Marshall McLuhan, with urbanist Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and artist György Kepes, responded to crises in the 60s and 70s similar to what we now face: human-to-human violence on a planetary scale, carving inequities and fomented by arms and mediation; catastrophic human to non-human relations, with human activity sparking irreversible (and accelerating) environmental degradation; ... Read more

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  • Art as Organism

    Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image

    What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images – rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture

    The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and architecture. The book presents a diversity of hybrid art-and-science thinking, revealing how science and culture are interwoven. The book situates bioart and bioarchitecture within an expanded field of biology in art, architecture, and design. It ... Read more

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  • D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture

    From Forces to Forms

    Series series Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design
    Longlisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links ... Read more

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    Beyond the Clock

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