Title & Author:

Desire by design : body, territories and new technologies / edited by Cutting Edge, the Women's Research Group.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 1999.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256).
Partial bodies: re-establishing boundaries, medical and virtual / Alexa Wright -- NIts and NRTs: medical science and the Frankenstein factor / Sarah Kember -- Imag(in)ing the cyborg / Jane Prophet -- Imaging the unseeable / Jackie Hatfield -- Body and the machine / Nicky West -- Digital sampling: ideas suggested by some women's art practices / Katy Deepwell -- Escape from the flatlands: the impact of new technologies on graphic design education / Erica Matlow -- Technowhores / Rosie Higgins, Estella Rushaija and Angela Medhurst.
Re-presenting marginalized groups in museums: the computer's 'second nature'? / Helen Coxall -- What have science, design and technology got to do with gender: a conversation between Uma Patel and Erica Matlow / Uma Patel and Erica Matlow -- Accumulation of subtleties / Danielle Eubank -- From slaveship to mothership and beyond: thoughts on a digital diaspora / Janice Cheddie -- Reflection on Mirror, Mirror / Gail Pearce -- Positions in the landscape?: gender, space and the 'nature' of virtual reality / Jos Boys -- Bodies of glass: the architexture of femininity / Alex Warwick.
City futures: city visions, gender and future city structures / Marion Roberts.
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Summary:

Desire by Design is a celebration of the possibilities offered by emerging new technologies to cut across conventional disciplinary boundaries and to challenge received ideas about gender, identity, the body, subjectivism and space.

ISBN:

1860642802 (pbk.)
9781860642807

Subject:

Art and technology.
Art and society.
Women in art Social aspects.
Gender identity in art.
Human body.
Sex role.
Technology and civilization.
City planning.
Interactive computer systems.
City Planning
Gender Role
Corps humain.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Technologie et civilisation.
Art et technologie.
Urbanisme.
Systèmes conversationnels (Informatique)
Art et société.
Femmes dans l'art Aspect social.
Identité de genre dans l'art.
sex role.
urban planning.
Geschlechterrolle
Gesellschaft
Ästhetisches Ideal
Vormgeving.
Lichamelijkheid.
Elektronische kunst.
Gender roles.
Body, Human
Art

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Cutting Edge (Group)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209313
Call No.: BD450 .D4 1999
Status: Available