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The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations(...)
Fashionable Technology: the intersection of design, science, and technology
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The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations serve as clarification. Over 50 well-known designers, research institutes, companies and artists, among them Philips, Burton, MIT Media Lab, XS Labs, New York University, Hussein Chalayan, Cute Circuit or International Fashion Machines are introduced by means of their latest, often still unpublished, project, and a survey of their work to date. Given for the first time is a list of all the relevant information on research institutes, materials, publications etc. A must for all those wishing to know everything about fashionable technology.
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Interior Design
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Ambitious and interdisciplinary, "Moscow vanguard art: 1922-1992 tells the story of generations of artists who resisted Soviet dictates on aesthetics, spanning the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, and Soviet postwar art in one volume. Drawing on art history, criticism, and political theory, Margarita Tupitsyn unites these three epochs, mapping their differences and(...)
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Moscow vanguard art : 1922-1992
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Ambitious and interdisciplinary, "Moscow vanguard art: 1922-1992 tells the story of generations of artists who resisted Soviet dictates on aesthetics, spanning the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, and Soviet postwar art in one volume. Drawing on art history, criticism, and political theory, Margarita Tupitsyn unites these three epochs, mapping their differences and commonalities, ultimately reconnecting the postwar vanguard with the historical avant-garde. With a focus on Moscow artists, the book chronicles how this milieu achieved institutional and financial independence, and reflects on the theoretical and visual models it generated in various media, including painting, photography, conceptual, performance, and installation art. Generously illustrated, this ground-breaking volume, published in the year that marks the centennial of the October Revolution, demonstrates that, regardless of political repression, the spirit of artistic experiment never ceased to exist in the Soviet Union.
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Contestations brings together a range of artists, theorists and other practitioners to consider the state of education and learning in light of political struggle, institutional crisis and new media platforms. Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing(...)
Contestations: learning from critical experiments in education
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Contestations brings together a range of artists, theorists and other practitioners to consider the state of education and learning in light of political struggle, institutional crisis and new media platforms. Focusing on creative experiments in education, Contestations seeks to instigate a conversation about the future direction of education that challenges existing academic models while examining possibilities for strategic intervention and self-organisation.
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Art as far as the eye can see puts art back where it matters, at the center of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But, in our new media world, art has changed; its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics, what Virilio defined as the key characteristics(...)
Art as far as the eye can see
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Art as far as the eye can see puts art back where it matters, at the center of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But, in our new media world, art has changed; its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics, what Virilio defined as the key characteristics of the twentieth century, have been and mass culture. And the defining characteristics of mass culture today is panic.
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Imagery in the 21st century
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We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today’s informatio explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images(...)
Imagery in the 21st century
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We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today’s informatio explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem capable of changing interactively or even autonomously. This volume offers systematic and interdisciplinary reflections on these new image worlds and new analytical approaches to the visual.
Art Theory
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he(...)
The urban spectator: American concept-cities from Kodak to Google
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he labels "possessive spectatorship." Lacking the historical rootedness of European cities, the American city was open to individual interpretation, definition, and ownership. Beginning with the White City of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the efforts to commodify the concept city through photography, Gordon shows how the American city has always been a product of the collision between the dominant conceptualization, shaped by contemporary media, and the spectator. From the viewfinder of the Kodak camera, to the public display of early cinema, to the speculative desire of network radio, all the way to machine-age utopianism, nostalgia, and America's "rerun" culture, the city is an amalgam of practice and concept. All of this comes to a head in the "database city" where urban spectatorship takes on the characteristics of a Google search. In new urban developments, the spectator searches, retrieves, and combines urban references to construct each experience of the city.
Urban Theory
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A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art. Designed for classroom use, Anthropology of the Arts is invaluable for(...)
Anthropology of the arts: reader
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A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art. Designed for classroom use, Anthropology of the Arts is invaluable for teaching and learning. Engaging and accessible, it is essential reading for students in anthropology of art, anthropology of design, anthropology of performance, and related courses.
Critical Theory
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Leslie Sklair: Argues that the almost exclusive focus of the media on iconic architecture and starchitects presents a misleading account of the industry. Posits that iconic architecture at the city, national, and global scales is part of an ideological and cultural strategy. Draws on a series of formal interviews with practicing architects and people working in and around(...)
The icon project: architecture, cities, and capitalist globalization
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Leslie Sklair: Argues that the almost exclusive focus of the media on iconic architecture and starchitects presents a misleading account of the industry. Posits that iconic architecture at the city, national, and global scales is part of an ideological and cultural strategy. Draws on a series of formal interviews with practicing architects and people working in and around architecture from all over the world. Features the first attempt to establish empirically the structure of the architecture industry worldwide in the 21st century, using industry sources of data
Architectural Theory
The printed and the built: architecture, print culture and public debate in the nineteenth century
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This publication explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly field which has profoundly influenced architectural history in recent years. Yet, while groundbreaking work has been done on architecture and printing in the Renaissance, the(...)
The printed and the built: architecture, print culture and public debate in the nineteenth century
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This publication explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly field which has profoundly influenced architectural history in recent years. Yet, while groundbreaking work has been done on architecture and printing in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, the nineteenth century has received little attention. This is the omission that 'The Printed and the Built' seeks to address, thus filling a significant gap in the understanding of architecture's cultural history.
Architectural Theory
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Atelier Van Lieshout, Boundary Umlimited, DUS Architects, Haas & Hahn, Nicoline van Harskamp, Anne Holtrop and Bas Princen, Wouter Klein Velderman, Krijn de Koning, NIO Architects and Onix: the artists and architects in this catalogue of the eponymous exhibition in the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato seek a direct relationship with reality,(...)
Triggering reality : new conditions for art and architecture in the Netherlands
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Atelier Van Lieshout, Boundary Umlimited, DUS Architects, Haas & Hahn, Nicoline van Harskamp, Anne Holtrop and Bas Princen, Wouter Klein Velderman, Krijn de Koning, NIO Architects and Onix: the artists and architects in this catalogue of the eponymous exhibition in the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato seek a direct relationship with reality, investigating and reproducing it, representing and criticizing it.Their approach is increasingly trans-disciplinary: architects utilize media and supports typical of the arts, while artists investigate urban realities in three-dimensional architectural installations.
Architectural Theory