$80.16
- Hardcover
210 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2019
Summary
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of “atoms to bits”-that human affairs would be increasingly untethered from the material world. And yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the material world behind. In Being Material, artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043281 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262043289 |
| Author: | Marie-Pier Boucher, Stefan Helmreich, Leila W. Kinney, Skylar Tibbits, Rebecca Uchill, Evan Ziporyn |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.30kg |
| Dimensions: | 305mm x 229mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
About The Author
Marie-Pier Boucher
Marie-Pier Boucher is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto and former Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MIT.Stefan Helmreich is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at MIT. He is the author of Alien Ocean, Sounding the Limits of Life, and Silicon Second Nature.Leila W. Kinney is Executive Director of Arts Initiatives at MIT and of the Center for Art, Science, & Technology (CAST).Skylar Tibbits is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT, where he is also the founder of the Self Assembly Lab. His work has been exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York, the FRAC Centre, the Beijing Biennale, and the Centre Pompidou.Rebecca Uchill is a full-time Lecturer an Art Education, Art History, and Media Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and former Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MIT.Evan Ziporyn, a composer and clarinetist, is Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Music and Theater Arts Department, and inaugural Director of CAST at MIT.
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