Shimmer
Artists Dream a Posthuman World
$70.78
- Hardcover
152 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
An eye-opening collection from contemporary artists and authors about how art and technology can reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature and society.
Shimmer—the apt name of both the highly-illustrated book and the exhibition it accompanies—offers a timely collection of essays by today’s key thinkers about art and technology. In this vital showcase that takes on some of the most salient questions of our time, authors and artists consider how a “posthuman” perspective ca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262054515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262054515 |
| Author: | Mark W. Scala, Nora N. Khan |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 254mm |
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Mark W. Scala
Mark W. Scala is Chief Curator at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville. He has mounted multiple major exhibitions at the Frist, the publications for which focus on the metamorphosis of the body in global contemporary art such as Paint Made Flesh, Phantom Bodies, and Chaos and Awe.
Nora N. Khan is an independent critic, curator, and professor at UC-Santa Cruz. Her publications include AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism and Seeing, Naming, Knowing. She is a member of the Curatorial Collective of Counterpublic.
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