Centerbook
The Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Evolution of Art-Science-Technology at MIT
$173.37
- Hardcover
350 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2019
Summary
The first comprehensive history of MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), told through personal accounts and groundbreaking artwork.In 1967, in a time of student unrest, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did the unexpected- it established the first academic center for research and collaboration in art, science, and technology. The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) brought artists to the MIT campus with radical expressions of a rapidly evolving technological era.The b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780998117058 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0998117056 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Goldring, Ellen Sebring, John Durant, Gediminas Urbonas |
| Publisher: | MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) |
| Imprint: | MIT School of Architecture and Planning |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 350 |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.88kg |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Centerbook |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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About The Author
Elizabeth Goldring
Elizabeth Goldring, a poet and media artist, is CAVS Fellow at ACT and director of the CAVS Vision Group. Also at CAVS (MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies), Goldring was Exhibits and Projects Director, Senior Fellow, Acting Director, and Lecturer in MIT’s Architecture Department.Ellen Sebring is a media artist and theorist. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University, she was a Research Fellow at CAVS and, from 2002 to 2012, was Creative Director of MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project.Gediminas Urbonas is an Associate Professor at MIT and an artist, activist, educator, and is cofounder with Nomeda Urbonas of US- the Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research practice.Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. With Bruno Latour, he coedited ICONOCLASH and Making Things Public as well as other ZKM volumes, including, most recently, Sound Art and Global Activism (all published by the MIT Press).
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