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Digital bodies : creativity and technology in the arts and humanities
This book explores technologies related to bodily interaction and creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. By taking such an approach, the collection offers a comprehensive view of digital technology research that both extends our notions of the body and creativity through a digital lens, and informs of the role of technology in practices central to the arts and humanities. Crucially, Digital Bodies foregrounds creativity, the interrogation of technologies and the notion of embodiment within the various disciplines of art, design, performance and social science. In doing so, it explores a potential or virtual new sense of the embodied self. This book will appeal to academics, practitioners and those with an interest in not only how digital technologies affect the body, but also how they can enhance human creativity.
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Performative Images
Performative Images draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology. Video art and video activism are analysed together in the book to reevaluate key concepts in media studies and foreground a performative approach to the theory of image technology. The book engages works in visual culture, performance studies, digital studies, critical race theory, and feminist methodologies to account for the changes brought about by video technology in social and psychic life. Performative Images is about art and activists' engagement in video technology - an engagement that unsettles the hegemonic narrative of dominant media, as well as the apparently politically neutral dimension of communication technology. In this book, the author explores how video-image technology shapes our psychic and social environments from an art historiographical perspective. We know media technology is dramatically shaping our political and epistemological landscape: this book foregrounds the emergence of performative video images as a key factor in the revaluation of culture and politics.
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Nadim Samman
Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day.How is this registered in art?In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman explores works that highlight the hidden dimensions of our technological landscape.
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Breathable hyperbranched polysiloxane for the conservation of silicate cultural heritages
The loose and porous structural nature of silicate cultural heritages makes them vulnerable to environmental changes. After thousands of years exposure, many of them are seriously degraded. Consolidation using certain conservation material is one of the most common methodologies to protect them. However, the vapor permeability of the relics often decreases significantly because conservation material fills the pores or changes the hydrophilicity of the relics, both blocking the vapor transportation. In this work, a novel hyperbranched polysiloxane is synthesized and its potential as conservation material for silicate cultural heritages is examined using sandstones from Yungang grottoes as mockup samples. The hyperbranched structure can lead to the formation of continuous, crack-free, and breathable network, which provides required reinforcement and remains most of the vapor permeability of the treated stone. Our results show that the as-prepared hyperbranched polysiloxane is highly potential for sandstone relics conservation, such as Yungang grottoes.
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Hydroxy and amine terminated hyperbranched polysiloxane (HB-PolySi) and its linear analogue (L-PolySi) are synthesized and evaluated for cultural heritage conservation.
When they are used to restrengthen aged sandstones, HB-PolySi shows better mechanical reinforcement than L-PolySi due to its hyperbranched structure.
After application, HB-PolySi also remains over 95% of the original vapor permeability of the stone.
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The future of art in a postdigital age
In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a prophetic vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. The author surveys new art forms emerging from a postdigitial age that address the humanization of digital technologies. He ventures beyond the digital to explore postdigital perspectives rising from creative encounters between art, science, technology and human consciousness.
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(M)other tongue: the optic and haptic scale for restAURAtion works made of silica aerogel
Silica aerogel is an attractive material for art as well as science and engineering. The characteristic transparency and low refractive index have made silica aerogel a novel material for visual arts under the name of
aer()sculptures
. Starting from one sculptural work by the first author, the artwork
(M)other
, is a novel concept proposing the use of silica aerogel in the “restAURAtion” of cultural heritage to replace classical plaster of Paris techniques. Restoring missing parts of a monument with a translucent material renders a new aesthetic quality. Light scattering disambiguates the missing arms of a Parthenon Caryatid, for example, an ethereal image adding to its historic value, which cannot be achieved by the plaster of Paris restoration technique.
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Transparent silica aerogels have been used for visual arts by the first author and named as
Aer()sculptures
.
The missing arms of a caryatid were restored by photo editing with transparent silica aerogels instead of plaster of Paris.
The new aesthetic nature of restoration as a study case will be viewed in New Acropolis Museum.
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