Book Description
Their work ranges across disciplines – microbiology, the physical sciences, information technologies, human biology and living systems, kinetics and robotics – taking in everything from eugenics and climate change to virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Art + Science Now provides a dazzling overview of this new strand of contemporary art, showcasing the best international work produced since 2000. Featuring around 250 artists from the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the US, Japan, Australia and elsewhere, it presents a broad range of fascinating projects, from body art to bioengineering, from music, dance and computer-controlled video performances to large-scale visual and sound installations, all of which challenge our assumptions about our relations with science, technology and the world around us.
Stephen Wilson, a leading authority in the field, neatly summarizes the latest scientific research for the lay reader, and supplements his text with a reading list and extensive online resources, highlighting the museums, festivals, research centres and educational programmes that support this new work.
Presenting a comprehensive guide to contemporary art inspired or driven by scientific and technological innovation, Art + Science Now points to intriguing new directions for the visual arts and traces a key strand in 21st-century aesthetics.
Book Details
Extent: 208 pp
Format: Paperback with flaps
Publication date: 2012-07-12
Size: 27.5 x 23.0 cm
ISBN: 9780500289952
Live surveillance intercepted from wireless CCTV cameras is captured and then broadcast on city walls. The illustration shows projections ‘hijacked’ from a car wash. Teran’s website explains that she is interested in both the dangers of, and new opportunities for, the private use of surveillance in the city: ‘What are people watching? In which ways are they being used? … The action of walking through the city and intercepting wireless surveillance feeds becomes a journey narrative of transient states, intertwined between place and non-place, between the visible and invisible, as one moves through and inhabits both the physical and mediated.’