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Machines as Agency

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This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-sid...
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  • 06 October 2007
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This book supports and deepens the existing interfaces between art, science, and technology – transgressing traditional principles and styles of research, and selectively overcoming the side-by-side coexistence in favour of an integrated »laboratory of the future«. Instead of relying on traditional dualisms like nature-culture, subject-object, as well as man and machine, heterogeneous networks with humans and non-humans (Latour) are opened in shared contexts of agency. New momentary propositions are developed, meeting the complexity of discovering, exploring, and inventing – things: things which do not exist just as given beings. The artists and theoreticians can pursue using the tools and techniques of science actively – not only to comment them but also to fathom their possibilities, and employ them in their artistic and scientific projects. Machines as Agency is an artistic perspective.
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Pages: 198
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 06 October 2007
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.67 in
ISBN: 9783899426465
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, ART / Film & Video
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Christoph Lischka is professor of »Poietic Machines« (Autoaktive Systeme) at the University of the Arts Bremen. His current focus of research is the relation between the Arts and Convergent Technologies (NBIC).
Andrea Sick is professor of Cultural Studies and Media Theory at the University of the Arts Bremen. Her topics include relations between technological media and cultural production.

Frontmatter 1
Content 6
Editorial 10
Toward Embodied Musical Machines 18
Mechano-Poïia 36
Embodied Cognitive Science as a Paradigm for Music Research 48
The Robotic Percussionist 66
Impossible People 88
Man and Machines 104
Questions of Style 118
'You See the Videos But I Know How the Machine Functions' 136
Reality is a pretence for fantasy 156
Bioalloy 164
Living Rooms 176
Adaptive Machines 182
Biographies 193