By Elizabeth Swanstrom
ISBN-10: 081731895X
ISBN-13: 9780817318956
ISBN-10: 0817389296
ISBN-13: 9780817389291
In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a convinced and lively argument for using electronic paintings in help of ameliorating human engagement with the surroundings and indicates a four-part framework for examining and discussing such applications.
via shut readings of a panoply of texts, artistic endeavors, and cultural artifacts, Swanstrom demonstrates that the department pop culture has for many years saw among nature and know-how is synthetic. not just is electronic know-how no longer inevitably a brick within the highway to a dystopian way forward for environmental catastrophe, yet electronic paintings types could be a revivifying bridge that returns humans to a extra speedy dating to nature in addition to their very own embodied selves.
to research and comprehend the intersection of electronic paintings and nature, Animal, Vegetable, Digital explores 4 aesthetic suggestions: coding, collapsing, corresponding, and keeping. “Coding” denotes the best way artists use operational desktop code to blur differences among the reader and textual content, and, accordingly, the area. Inviting a fluid perception of the boundary among human and know-how, “collapsing” voids simplistic assumptions in regards to the human body’s innate perimeter. the method of translation among normal and human-readable symptoms that allows communique is defined as “corresponding.” “Conserving” is the appliance of electronic paintings by means of artists to democratize huge- and small-scale renovation efforts.
a desirable synthesis of literary feedback, communications and journalism, technology and know-how, and rhetoric that pulls on such disparate phenomena as simulated environments, games, and pop culture, Animal, Vegetable, Digital posits that partnerships among electronic aesthetics and environmental feedback are attainable that reconnect humankind to nature and reaffirm its kinship with different residing and nonliving things.
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In the ancient world, Homeric epic teems with natural objects with powerful import. Flowers, trees, eagles, and swans are always both themselves and signs of divine activity and transformation. . [with] magical functions, sometimes oracular, sometimes sacrificial” (4). At some point the voices of these vital agents lost their authority. Typically, we call this moment “modernity,” an oversimplification but at least an economic one, in that so much about technology, progress, rationality, and liberty is packed in those four syllables.
Code is an object, takes an object, is responsible for manipulating objects. It is, in fact, inseparable from the machinic apparatus that it commands. The practice of coding also signifies an uncomfortable zone of artistry that is always balancing individual methods of creative problem-solving and artistic expression against corporate, automated systems. In terms of aesthetic practice, code is both operational and expressive. A machine-readable program, when compiled or interpreted by a computer processer, executes a series of commands and is called “operational” because it tasks the computer with performing some kind of operation (filing, counting, sorting, calculating, creating, deleting, mapping, etc).
When run on an early Macintosh, the program on the disk instructed the computer to scroll the poem once, and only once, and then erase itself. ” And, finally, the typesetting and binding were achievements of the Golgonooza printing press in New Hamp shire, which burned and branded each cover; set the type—here, arguably, the fruit fly had its revenge (the Gs, Ts, Cs, and As must have been a typesetter’s bane)—and cut a floppy disk–size hole from the last few pages of each copy; then Smyth stitched the binding, that is, sewed through each signature with an industrial-strength sewing machine.
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