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1 online resource. |
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Biotechne: interthinking art, science and design
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This open access book takes a queer feminist technoscience approach to the ecologies that emerge from our entanglements with nonhumans (air, rocks, algae, trees, soil and plants) and computational hard/software. Artists, feminist techno-scientists and theorists working with computation, Plants by Numbers address the current need to think beyond the human paradigm, opening up new fields of debate that question the troubled relationship between ecosystems and human technology. Organised around three key themes - techno-nature entanglements, plants as resistant agents, and becoming-with-plants - the volume provides a vital pathway through complex theoretical ideas that inform the practices of artists working in the fields of computation and ecology. Taking art theoretical and art practice approaches, contributors describe how we might design, make and imagine computational processes differently, or otherwise, through the co-production of artworks with plants. The authors show how these artworks open up new potentialities, and anti-colonial perspectives in the ways they engage with the contested sites of knowing and unknowing in technoscience. Describing in detail how we might design computational processes differently, the book shows how these artworks might act as communicative media between the biological and technological, thus opening up new potential areas of research whilst producing new ethical-political engagements"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Contents |
<B>Acknowledgements</b> <b>List of Contributors </b> <b>List of Plates</b> <b>List of Figures</b> <b>Introduction</b> <b>Part One: Techno-nature entanglements</b> 1. Afro-now-ist Stories of Resistance: A Conversation with Stephanie Dinkins, <i>Stephanie Dinkins (Stony Brook University, USA) and Srimoyee Mitra (University of Michigan, USA)</i> 2. The Compromised/Compromising Life of a Farmed Plant, <i>Elaine Gan (Wesleyan University, USA)</i> 3. As Children of Plants, we Play in our Machine Gardens, <i>Amy Youngs (Ohio State University, USA)</i> 4. Co-operating with Diatoms -- queer fabulations of a world feeling computing, <i>Helen V. Pritchard (</i><i>HGK-FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland)</i> 5. So-called Plants, <i>Possible Bodies</i>, <i>Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting (</i><i>Interdependent researchers, Barcelona and Brussels)</i> <b>Part Two: Plants -- resistance, regeneration and alliance</b> 6. Forests that Compute, <i>Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge, UK)</i> 7. Watered by Data and Other Bio-economic Thoughts: A Conversation Between Curator Belinda Kwan and Artist Stephanie Rothenberg, <i>Belinda Kwan (Independent curator, Canada) and Stephanie Rothenberg (SUNY Buffalo, USA)</i> 8. Tending to 2030m3: How to regenerate regeneration? How to unasphalt asphalt?, <i>Helen V. Pritchard (</i><i>HGK-FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland), Eric Snodgrass (Linnaeus University/Linköping, Sweden) Miranda Moss (Artist, South Africa), Daniel Gustafsson (Linnaeus University, Sweden</i> 9. Decolonization, Computation, Propagation: Phyto-human alliances in the pathways towards generative justice, <i>Ron Eglash, Audrey Bennett, Lionel Robert, Kwame Porter Robinson, Matthew Garvin, Mark Guzdial (all, University of Michigan, USA)</i> <b>Part Three: Becoming-with-plants</b> 10. Codely Phytographia: an artist's material history of writing code with trees, <i>Jane Prophet (University of Michigan, USA)</i> 11. Tehran of Trees, <i>Sina Seifee (Artist, Belgium/Iran)</i> 12. Writing in the Wind: Ecopoetics and geoengineering, <i>Joel Ong (York University, </i><i>Canada)</i> 13. Sunbot Swarm: Absurdist Cyborg Systems for House Plants, <i>Kathleen McDermott (NYU Tandon, USA)</i> 14. Yellow Furry Lullaby, <i>Breakwater, Youngsook Choi and Taey Iohe (Artists, UK</i><i>/Korea)</i> <b>Glossary</b> <b>Index</b> |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
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Art and technology.
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Art and natural history.
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Human-plant relationships.
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Lesbian feminist theory.
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Theory of art.
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Art and natural history. (OCoLC)fst01983201
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Art and technology. (OCoLC)fst00815441
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Human-plant relationships. (OCoLC)fst00963515
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Lesbian feminist theory. (OCoLC)fst00996484
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| Added Author |
Pritchard, Helen V., editor.
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Prophet, Jane, 1964- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Plants by numbers London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350343252 (DLC) 2023001632 |
| ISBN |
9781350351042 |
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1350351040 |
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9781350343252 (hardback) |
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9781350344938 (pdf) |
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1350344931 |
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9781350344945 (epub) |
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135034494X |
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9781350344969 (paperback) |
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