Art as Organism

Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image

Dr. Charissa N. Terranova (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-27097-8 (ISBN)

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Art as Organism shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. Linking its emergence to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s, Charissa Terranova uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions, and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines.

Unearthing a forgotten narrative of modernism, one which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory, and cybernetics had on modern art, Terranova interprets new major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art, and Experiments in Art and Technology by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers, and computer scientists. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, this book charts complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of 20th-century art.

Charissa N. Terranova is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She is the author of Automotive Prosthetic (2014) and the co-editor of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2021) and has published articles in Leonardo, Art Journal, Urban History Review, and Journal of Urban History, among others.

Preface
Introduction: The Haptic Unconscious: László Moholy-Nagy’s Organismic Aesthetics

1. Bauhaus Biology: The Beginnings of Biofunctionalism
2. Gyorgy Kepes and the Light image as Bio-Image: Pop Art-and-Science, Integration, and Distribution
3. The Distributed Image of the City: The Collaboration between Gyorgy Kepes and Kevin Lynch
4. Wet Perception: Op Art and New Tendencies, between the Gestalt and Ecological Psychology
5. The Digital Image in Art: The Generative Turn, Computational and Biological

Erscheinungsdatum	17.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	82 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	596 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	1-350-27097-0 / 1350270970
ISBN-13	978-1-350-27097-8 / 9781350270978
Zustand	Neuware