Verena Kuni
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
Was unterscheidet »freie« von »angewandten« Künsten? Diese nicht erst seit der Moderne virulente Frage prägt die Kunstvorstellungen bis heute. Der Band geht dieser die Hierarchie der Künste vorstrukturierenden Gegenüberstellung nach. Es zeigt sich, dass in den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Gattungshierarchien und implizite Geschlechtszuschreibungen nach wie vor eine zentrale Rolle spielen, was auch von zeitgenössischen...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however, continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are conceived and 'materialized' using digital technologies. How can we rethink the artistic medium in relation to our technological present and its historical precursors? A number of theoretical approaches discuss the implications of the so-called 'Aesthetics of...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1. Aufl.
Description
While feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores the processes of women's and feminist media production in the context of participatory spaces, technology, and cultural citizenship.The collection is composed of theoretical analyses and critical case...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
We are surrounded by complex things that affect us but which remain concealed behind interfaces. Examples of such black boxes are diverse: smart watches, artificial intelligence, complex software, and gene-editing technology. This interdisciplinary volume explores case examples of black boxes using theoretical analytic tools, looks at the ways they are sealed, and presents attempts to disclose their contents.
Wir sind von komplexen Dingen umgeben,...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Across the world, more and more DIY initiatives are cropping up, in which a diversity of matters and problems are being collectively dealt with. In these collaborative contexts - located away from the market and the state - an understanding of living together and urbanity based around democracy is tested out, and at the same time, ecologically and socially responsible solutions are being sought for fundamental forms of provision of food, of energy,...