Surface and Apparition

The Immateriality of Modern Surface

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-13044-9 (ISBN)

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Surface is one of the most intensely debated topics in recent arts, humanities and social science scholarship. The changing technologies which manufacture the actual and virtual surfaces of today are radically altering our perception of thresholds and borders. In contrast to the responses to preceding industrial revolutions, contemporary concerns with surface seem preoccupied with its function of mediation or passage, rather than with that of separation or boundary. In Surface and Apparition, each chapter explores a different meaning and function of the material and immaterial qualities of 'surface'.

Case studies include various surfaces from computer screens, 'artisanal' engines and glass architecture to gauzy veils, the planetary surface of supply chain capitalism, and spatial embodiment in street markets. International scholars of design, architecture, film, media, fine art, fashion, textiles, silversmithing, woodworking and archival practices account for how the material and the immaterial draw attention to each other in both their everyday and artistic practice. Each chapter addresses particular systems (from the human body to manually operated tools and machines); materials (for instance cloth, wood and light); modes of attention, movement and engagement. 'Surface' therefore functions in this book as a multidisciplinary method for attending to critical issues concerning human creative and technological endeavours.

Yeseung Lee is Lecturer for Design Cultures at De Montfort University, UK.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Surface Matters, Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University, USA)
Introduction, Yeseung Lee (De Montfort University, UK)

1. Folds of Fashion: Unravelled and the Planetary Surface, Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton, UK)
2. Surface-making in Nuclear Decommissioning: A Narrative of Sludge, Plutonium and Their Whereabouts, Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester, UK)
3. Surface Eruption: Machine Creativity and Emotive Data Objects, Barbara Rauch (OCAD University, Canada)
4. The Depth of Surface, Lesley Halliwell (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
5. Where Surface Meets Depth: Virtuality in Textile and Material Design, Elaine Igoe (University of Portsmouth, UK)
6. Growing Surface between Textiles and Electrochemisty, Joanne Horton (De Montfort University, UK)
7. David Pye's Fluting Engine, Benedict Carpenter van Barthold (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
8. Journal (2016-2018): Conversations on Looms, Cloth and Weaving, Max Mosscrop (independent artist, UK) and Benedict Carpenter van Barthold (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
9. On Drawing: Transmission from the Lifeworld to Paper at Namdaemun Market, Seoul, Ray Lucas (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
10. Archive Surface, Jane Birkin (University of Southampton, UK)
11. Experience, Poverty, Transparency: The Modern Surface of Interwar Glass, Freyja Hartzell (Bard Graduate Center, USA)
12. On Genealogy of Translucent Screen and Rehabilitation of the Ephemeral: Post-Cinema, Installation, Performance (Oksana Chefranova, Yale University, USA)

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2020
Zusatzinfo	35 colour, 16 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
ISBN-10	1-350-13044-3 / 1350130443
ISBN-13	978-1-350-13044-9 / 9781350130449
Zustand	Neuware