Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.
In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte
predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move
from the realm of "atoms to bits"-that human affairs would be
increasingly untethered from the material world. And yet in 2019,
an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the
material world behind. In Being Material, artists and technologists
explore the relationship of the digital to the material,
demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial function
within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they
remind us, are material things-constituted by atoms of gold,
silver, silicon, copper, tin, tungsten, and more. The contributors
explore five modes of being material: programmable, wearable,
livable, invisible, and audible. Their contributions take the form
of reports, manifestos, philosophical essays, and artist
portfolios, among other configurations. The book's cover merges the
possibilities of paper with those of the digital, featuring a
bookmark-like card that, when "seen" by a smartphone, generates
graphic arrangements that unlock films, music, and other dynamic
content on the book's website. At once artist's book, digitally
activated object, and collection of scholarship, this book both
demonstrates and chronicles the many ways of being material.
Contributors Christina Agapakis, Azra Aksamija, Sandy Alexandre,
Dewa Alit, George Barbastathis, Maya Beiser, Marie-Pier Boucher,
Benjamin H. Bratton, Hussein Chalayan, Jim Cybulski, Tal Danino,
Deborah G. Douglas, Arnold Dreyblatt, M. Amah Edoh, Michelle Tolini
Finamore, Team Foldscope and Global Foldscope community, Ben Fry,
Victor Gama, Stefan Helmreich, Hyphen-Labs, Leila Kinney, Rebecca
Konte, Winona LaDuke, Brendan Landis, Grace Leslie, Bill Maurer,
Lucy McRae, Tom OEzden-Schilling, Trevor Paglen, Lisa Parks, Nadya
Peek, Claire Pentecost, Manu Prakash,Casey Reas, Pawel Romanczuk,
Natasha D. Schull, Nick Shapiro, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill,
Evan Ziporyn Book Design: E Roon Kang Electronics, interactions,
and product designer: Marcelo Coelho
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