Alien Agency by Chris Salter - ISBN: 9780262549615
Paperback
When art’s materials surprise, creations become alien and profoundly new.

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
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
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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