Practicable : from participation to interaction in contemporary art

Book 2016

"How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created participatory works since the 1950s. In this book, critics, writers, and artists offer diverse perspectives on this kind of "practicable" art that br...

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Interactive art

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Leonardo Leonardo book series

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ISBN:

9780262034753

Description:

xv, 930 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 809-848) and index

Contents:

Introduction : Practicable: art in the conditional / Samuel Bianchini and Erik Verhagen
I. From cybernetics onward : Gordon Pask's cybernetic systems: conversations after the end of the mechanical age / Margit Rosen
The artist as homo arbiter formae: art and interaction in Jack Burnham's systems essays / Luke Skrebowski
Two decades of interactive art: digital technologies and human experience / Simon Penny
II. Art scenes and movements in search of participation : Against the spectacle: the construction of situations / Vanessa Theodoropoulou
From program to behavior: the experience of Arte Programmata in Italy, 1958-1968 / Emanuele Quinz
"The breath is up to you": on some works by Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, and Lygia Pape / Glória Ferreira
À la recherche d'un nouveau spectateur: the function and significance of play in the participatory environments of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel / Marion Hohlfeldt
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi: performances and environments / Christophe Charles
Tactical media and the aesthetics of participation / Eric Kluitenberg
III. From the vantage point of the humanities and social sciences : Echoes of pragmatism in current artistic practices / Jean-Pierre Cometti
Art/anthropology interventions / Arnd Schneider
Habitable: spectator participation in everyday life / Anna Dezeuze
From the practice of roles to the facts of consciousness: art and its qualities / Pierre-Damien Huyghe
Collaborating and participating: a connection worth examining / Véronique Goudinoux
Public operation: net art, sociology, and practicable media / Jean-Paul Fourmentraux
The contractual definition of the work of art: a contribution to the discussion of the dispositif in art / Judith Ickowicz
IV. Art in action: on performance : Why participate?: On the concrete experience of participatory performances / Katrin Gattinger
Haptic vision: the female body and "practicable" art / Giovanna Zapperi
Traveling microbus hordes: a mobile audience / Diedrich Diederichsen
Demo n.0 / Peter Lunenfeld
V. Bringing about interaction, grasping, and seeing: exhibiting practicable works of art : Toward a dramaturgy of interactivity / Jean-Louis Boissier
Stop, drop, and roll with it: curating participatory media art / Sarah Cook
Taking hold of images: some thoughts on the free handling of photographs in contemporary art / Nathalie Delbard
VI. Some key works: case studies : Robert Rauschenberg's Oracle: "a laboratory for testing perceptions" / Christophe Leclercq
Lygia Clark's Caminhando / Anna Dezeuze
Charlotte Posenenske: mimetic minimalism and practicability / Renate Wiehager
The artwork as password: on some pieces by Piotr Kowalski / Jean Christophe Bailly
Robert Morris's Bodyspacemotionthings : participation reenacted / Catherine Wood
"Therapeutic" participation: on the legacy of Bruce Nauman's Yellow room (triangular) and other works / Janet Kraynak
Welcome!: On Dan Graham's Opposing mirrors and video monitors on time delay / François Parfait
On cruelty in art: Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0 / Gilles Froger
Viewer-instrumented play: Very nervous system by David Rokeby / Jean Gagnon
When objects speak in images: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless vehicle project as an instrument of public discussion / Christophe Domino
Reflections on Jeffrey Shaw's Golden calf / Daniel Pinkas
Janet Cardiff's Walks / Andrea Urlberger
The gravity of art: on Carsten Höller's Untitled (Slide), 2011 / Madeline Schwartzman
Exhibiting the museum: the hybrid spaces of workspace unlimited / Dominique Moulon
VII. Words from artists and theoreticians: interviews : "Creating a living responsive environment" / Julie Martin interviewed by Christophe Leclercq
The action is the original / Franz Erhard Walther interviewed by Erik Verhagen
From interaction to public authorship / Jochen Gerz interviewed by Marion Hohlfeldt
In search of relational art / Piero Gilardi in

LCCN:

2016008327

Control Number:

2815765

Other Authors:

Bianchini, Samuel, editor
Delbard, Nathalie
Dryansky, Larisa
Verhagen, Erik, editor

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