Machine art in the Twentieth Century
By: Andreas Broeckmann
Series: Leonardo; Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780262035064
Subjects: Themes, motives; Art and technology; Modern Art
Description: "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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the phantom of "machine art"; title: Toward the art and aesthetics of the machine; title: Algorithm machine; title: Image machine; title: Body machine; title: Ecology machine; title: Epilogue: fantasies of destruction.