Alien Agency
Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making
- Paperback
328 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2023
Summary
An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators’ intentions.
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 these works—all three deeply embroiled in and enabled by science and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549615 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262549611 |
| Author: | Chris Salter, Andrew Pickering |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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About The Author
Chris Salter
Chris Salter is an artist, Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, and Codirector of the Hexagram network for arts, culture, and technology. He is the author of Entangled- Technology and the Transformation of Performance and Alien Agency- Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making, both published by the MIT Press.
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