Making Sense
Cognition, Computing, Art, and Embodiment
- Paperback
540 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2019
Summary
Why embodied approaches to cognition are better able to address the performative dimensions of art than the dualistic conceptions fundamental to theories of digital computing.In Making Sense, Simon Penny proposes that internalist conceptions of cognition have minimal purchase on embodied cognitive practices. Much of the cognition involved in arts practices remains invisible under such a paradigm. Penny argues that the mind-body dualism of Western humanist philosophy is inadequate for addressi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262538237 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262538237 |
| Author: | Simon Penny |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 540 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2019 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Leonardo |
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The history of computing, cybernetics and AI are reinterpreted through cognitive perameters, and the difficult relationship between the logic of cognitive science and the “intelligence” of art (or “situated cognition”) is amply debated making the reading of this book a desirable, intense and informed experience.
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Simon Penny
Simon Penny is Professor of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, teaching mechatronic art, media art history and theory, and interdisciplinary seminars interfacing contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind with the arts. Trained as a sculptor, he has spent much of his career building interactive art environments with custom robotic and sensor-based systems.
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