Art as Information Ecology

Art as Information Ecology
Title Art as Information Ecology PDF eBook
Author Jason A. Hoelscher
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 176
Release 2021-08-09
Genre Art
ISBN 1478021683

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In Art as Information Ecology, Jason A. Hoelscher offers not only an information theory of art but an aesthetic theory of information. Applying close readings of the information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon to 1960s American art, Hoelscher proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode—information oriented less toward answers and resolvability than toward questions, irresolvability, and sustained difference. These irresolvable differences, Hoelscher demonstrates, fuel the richness of aesthetic experience by which viewers glean new information and insight from each encounter with an artwork. In this way, art constitutes information that remains in formation---a difference that makes a difference that keeps on differencing. Considering the works of Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, the Drop City commune, Eva Hesse, and others, Hoelscher finds that art exists within an information ecology of complex feedback between artwork and artworld that is driven by the unfolding of difference. By charting how information in its aesthetic mode can exist beyond today's strictly quantifiable and monetizable forms, Hoelscher reconceives our understanding of how artworks work and how information operates.

The Green Bloc

The Green Bloc
Title The Green Bloc PDF eBook
Author Maja Fowkes
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 308
Release 2015-04-10
Genre Art
ISBN 9633860695

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Expanding the horizon of established accounts of Central European art under socialism, this book uncovers the neglected history of artistic engagement with the natural environment in the Eastern Bloc. The turbulent legacy of 1968, which saw the confluence of political upheaval, spread of counterculture, rise of ecological consciousness, and emergence of global conceptual art, provides the setting for Maja Fowkes’s innovative reassessment of the environmental practice of the Central European neo-avant-garde. Focussing on artists and artist groups whose ecological dimension has rarely been considered, including the Pécs Workshop from Hungary, OHO in Slovenia, TOK in Croatia, Rudolf Sikora in Slovakia, and the Czech artist Petr Štembera, 'The Green Bloc: Neo-avant-garde Art and Ecology under Socialism' brings to light an array of distinctive approaches to nature, from attempts to raise environmental awareness among socialist citizens to the exploration of non-anthropocentric positions and the quest for cosmological existence in the midst of red ideology. Embedding artistic production in social, political, and environmental histories of the region, this book reveals the Central European artists’ sophisticated relationship to nature, at the precise moment when ecological crisis was first apprehended on a planetary scale.

Art and Ecology Now

Art and Ecology Now
Title Art and Ecology Now PDF eBook
Author Andrew Brown
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2014-05-20
Genre Art
ISBN 0500239169

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The first survey of its kind to explore contemporary art that focuses on ecology From land art and earthworks in the 1960s to conceptual art of the new millennium, ecology-focused art has been a prominent genre in the art world for decades. This book offers a look into the recent explosion in contemporary art that deals directly with nature, the environment, climate change, and ecology. Organized into six thematic chapters, Art & Ecology Now moves through the various levels of artists’ engagement, from those who document and reflect on nature, to those who use the physical environment as the raw material for their art, and committed activists who set out to make art that transforms both our attitudes and our habits. More than 300 color illustrations feature the work of over 90 artists, including Allora & Calzadilla, Edward Burtynsky, Tue Greenfort, Hans Haacke, Eva Jospin, Nadav Kander, Yao Lu, David Maisel, Gustav Metzger, Svetlana Ostapovici, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Berndnaut Smilde, and more.

The Art of Ecology

The Art of Ecology
Title The Art of Ecology PDF eBook
Author George Evelyn Hutchinson
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2010
Genre Ecology
ISBN 9780300154498

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"A valuable overview of the writings and history of one of the twentieth century's finest minds."---Val Smith, University of Kansas --

Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-century France

Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-century France
Title Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-century France PDF eBook
Author Greg M. Thomas
Publisher
Pages 275
Release 2000
Genre Art
ISBN 9780691059464

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These paintings - dreams of nature as a web of life in which human beings occupy a peripheral role - overwhelmed Rousseau's contemporaries with their novel light effects, original perspective, and "sheer profusion of visual sensation." While Baudelaire considered them superior to even Corot's works, they baffled art critics and have never fit convincingly into the received categories of naturalism, "pre-Impressionism," or modernism."--Jacket.

Information Ecologies

Information Ecologies
Title Information Ecologies PDF eBook
Author Bonnie A. Nardi
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 250
Release 2000-02-28
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780262640428

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A call for informed, responsible engagement with information technology at the local level. The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme categories: uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. Claiming a middle ground, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O'Day call for responsible, informed engagement with technology in local settings, which they call information ecologies. An information ecology is a system of people, practices, technologies, and values in a local environment. Nardi and O'Day encourage the reader to become more aware of the ways people and technology are interrelated. They draw on their empirical research in offices, libraries, schools, and hospitals to show how people can engage their own values and commitments while using technology.

ECOcentric Topics

ECOcentric Topics
Title ECOcentric Topics PDF eBook
Author Linda Weintraub
Publisher
Pages 141
Release 2006
Genre Art, Modern
ISBN 9780977742141

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