Alien agency : experimental encounters with art in the making / Chris Salter ; afterword by Andrew Pickering.

9780262323598 (electronic bk.)
0262323591 (electronic bk.)
9780262028462
0262028468

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

English

1 online resource (xiii, 311 pages) : illustrations

BD418.8 .S25 2015eb

303.48/33

"In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art - the 'stuff of the world' - behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying thse works - all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and technology - allows him to focus on practice through the experiential and affective elements of creation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic observation and on his own experience as an artist, Salter investigates how researcher-creators organize the conditions for these experimental, performative assemlages that sidestep dichotomies between subjects and objects, human and nonhuman, mind and body, knowing and experiencing."

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