Plants by Numbers - Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience (Hardcover)

This open access book takes a queer, feminist, and decolonial technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard/software. In Plants by Numbers, artists and theorists working with computation address the urgent need to think beyond the human paradigm, opening up new fields of debate that question the troubled relationship between ecosystems and human technology. Organised around three key themes--techno-nature entanglements, plants as resistant agents, and becoming-with-plants--the volume provides a vital pathway through complex theoretical ideas that inform the practices of artists working in the fields of computation and ecology. Fusing art theoretical and art practice approaches, the contributors describe how we might design, make and imagine computational processes differently, or otherwise, through the co-production of artworks with plants. Showing how these artworks might act as communicative media between the biological and technological, Plants by Numbers opens up new potential areas of research whilst producing new ethical-political engagements. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Michigan.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	Jane Prophet (Professor and Associate Dean Research & Creative Work) • Helen V Pritchard (Associate Professor of Queer Feminist Technoscience and Digital Design)
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-34325-2
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
LSN:	1-350-34325-0
Barcode:	9781350343252

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