Description
The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking. Demonstrating the continuing relevance of systems aesthetics within contemporary art, the contributors highlight the ways that artists adopt systems thinking to address political, social, and ecological anxieties. They cover a wide range of artists and topics, from the performances of the Argentinian collective the Rosario Group and the grid drawings of Charles Gaines to the video art of Singaporean artist Charles Lim and the mapping of global logistics infrastructures by contemporary artists like Hito Steyerl and Christoph Buchel. Together, the essays offer an expanded understanding of systems aesthetics in ways that affirm its importance beyond technological applications detached from cultural contexts.
Contributors. Cristina Albu, Amanda Boetzkes, Brianne Cohen, Kris Cohen, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Christine Filippone, Johanna Gosse, Francis Halsall, Judith Rodenbeck, Dawna Schuld, Luke Skrebowski, Timothy Stott, John Tyson
About the Author
Johanna Gosse is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Idaho.
Timothy Stott is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, and author of Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices.
Reviews
"A vital and much-needed contribution to the literature on art and systems discourse. If the history of art has largely treated systems theory in terms of its technocratic implications in the 1960s, Nervous Systems expands the field to postwar and contemporary art, addressing race, gender, ecology, and global networks as among its most urgent questions." -- Pamela M. Lee, author of * Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present *
"Nervous Systems is one of the most impressive and conceptually nuanced collections of art historical essays that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. A model of what contemporary arts scholarship can look like, this volume is eminently readable and, most of all, teachable." -- Jonathan Eburne, author of * Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas *
Book Information
ISBN 9781478014768
Author Johanna Gosse
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 431g
Contributors. Cristina Albu, Amanda Boetzkes, Brianne Cohen, Kris Cohen, Jaimey Hamilton Faris, Christine Filippone, Johanna Gosse, Francis Halsall, Judith Rodenbeck, Dawna Schuld, Luke Skrebowski, Timothy Stott, John Tyson
About the Author
Johanna Gosse is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Idaho.
Timothy Stott is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, and author of Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices.
Reviews
"A vital and much-needed contribution to the literature on art and systems discourse. If the history of art has largely treated systems theory in terms of its technocratic implications in the 1960s, Nervous Systems expands the field to postwar and contemporary art, addressing race, gender, ecology, and global networks as among its most urgent questions." -- Pamela M. Lee, author of * Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present *
"Nervous Systems is one of the most impressive and conceptually nuanced collections of art historical essays that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. A model of what contemporary arts scholarship can look like, this volume is eminently readable and, most of all, teachable." -- Jonathan Eburne, author of * Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas *
Book Information
ISBN 9781478014768
Author Johanna Gosse
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 431g
