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Machine Art in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Machine Art in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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An investigation of artists' engagement with technical systems,
tracing art historical lineages that connect works of different
periods. "Machine art" is neither a movement nor a genre, but
encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical
systems. In this book, Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of
twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate
people's relationships with machines. In the course of his
investigation, Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect
art of different periods, looking for continuities that link works
from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s
and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art
historical perspective, he argues, might change our views of recent
works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in
fact continue a century-old artistic exploration. Broeckmann
investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that
characterized machine art until the 1960s and then turns to
specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms
and machine autonomy, looking in particular at the work of the
Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image, and the advent of
technical imaging; and the human body, using the work of the
Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the
machine to the body, mechanically or cybernetically. Finally,
Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought
about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology, which has
brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a
range of artworks, including those by the Japanese artist Seiko
Mikami, whose work exemplifies the shift.
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