Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Literature Now
Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data
Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Literature Now
ISBN: 978-0-231-18732-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Houser argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises. Infowhelm analyzes how artists transform the techniques of the sciences into aesthetic material, repurposing data on everything from butterfly migration to oil spills and experimenting with data collection, classification, and remote sensing. Houser traces how artists ranging from novelist Barbara Kingsolver to digital memorialist Maya Lin rework knowledge traditions native to the sciences, entangling data with embodiment, quantification with speculation, precision with ambiguity, and observation with feeling. Their works provide new ways of understanding environmental change while also questioning traditional distinctions between types of knowledge. Bridging the environmental humanities, digital media studies, and science and technology studies, this timely book reveals the importance of artistic medium and form to understanding environmental issues and challenges our assumptions about how people arrive at and respond to environmental knowledge.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen