[spectre] ann. new publication: Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology

[Andreas Broeckmann]

The book based on the 're:place 2007' conference is out:


Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology
Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge

Edited by Andreas Broeckmann and Gunalan Nadarajan

VDG Publishers, Weimar, 2009


The volume presents seventeen studies about the 
complex interactions between art, media, science, 
and technology, based on papers presented at the 
international conference 're:place 2007' (Berlin).

Zooming in on specific places and historical 
moments, the authors describe exemplary instances 
of the fruitful interaction and collaboration 
between artists, engineers, and scientists. 
Several analyses of the sites and trajectories of 
interdisciplinary knowledge production, as well 
as their ideological and institutional 
conditions, put a focus on areas such as the 
early Soviet Union, or the internationally 
dynamic period of the 1960s and 70s which is 
covered in essays about collaborative situations 
in Madrid, Sydney, and the Canadian West coast, 
as well as in Poland, Sweden, and Japan. Other 
essays deal with the work of individuals like 
Vilém Flusser, Siegfried Giedion, and Jacqueline 
Tyrwhitt. Beyond the presentation of key moments 
in the history of art and science collaboration, 
the volume seeks to raise methodological 
questions about conceptions of history that take 
the multiple intersections between academic 
disciplines and cultural practices into account, 
and use them for enriching our understanding of 
creativity, variation, and historical change.

Authors: Irina Aristarkhova, Michael Century, 
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Michael Darroch, Kristoffer 
Gansing, Olga Goriunova, Catherine Hamel, 
Caroline Seck Langill, Stephen Jones, Ryszard W. 
Kluszczynski, Janine Marchessault, Laura Marks, 
Eva Moraga, Nils Röller, Margareta Tillberg, 
Siegfried Zielinski.


291 pages, 56 b/w illustrations.
Price: 29,80 EURO
ISBN: 9783897396111

Order from:
http://www.vdg-weimar.de/catalogue_vdg/?id=9783897396111
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Table of Contents

Andreas Broeckmann, Gunalan Nadarajan: Introduction

Janine Marchessault and Michael Darroch: 
Anonymous History as Methodology: The 
Collaborations of Sigfried Giedion, Jaqueline 
Tyrwhitt, and the Explorations Group (1951-55)

Michael Century: Encoding Motion in the Early 
Computer: Knowledge Transfers between Studio and 
Laboratory

Eva Moraga: The Computation Center at Madrid 
University, 1966-1973: An Example of True 
Interaction between Art, Science and Technology

Stephen Jones: The Confluence of Computing and 
Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, 1968-1975

Kristoffer Gansing: Humans Thinking Like Machines 
- Incidental Media Art in the Swedish Welfare 
State

Caroline Seck Langill: Corridors of Practice: 
Technology and Performance Art on the North 
American Pacific Coast in the 1970s and Early 
1980s

Ryszard W. Kluszczynski: From Media Art to Techno 
Culture. Reflections on the Transformation of the 
Avant-Gardes

Machiko Kusahara: A Turning Point in Japanese Avant-garde Art: 1964 - 1970

Margareta Tillberg: You are now leaving the 
American Sector: The Russian Group Dvizhenie 
1962-1978

Irina Aristarkhova: Stepanova's "Laboratories"

Olga Goriunova: Vitalist Technocultural Thinking 
in Revolutionary Russia (on Piotr Engelmeier)

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: The Enduring Ephemeral, or the Future is a Memory

Laura Marks: Genetic Algorithms, Caucasian Carpets, and Kunstwollen

Nils Röller: Radical Migration - Media theory as 
a subversion of discourse and dialogue

Catherine Hamel: The National Museum of Beirut: Crossing into a Border

Siegfried Zielinski: Meaningful Shifts. Towards 
an Institute for Southern Modernities (ISMs)..