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Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Author : Sharon Irish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350197610
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art written by Sharon Irish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant. For decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.

Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art

Author : Sharon Irish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350197629
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art written by Sharon Irish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: new functions for art practice in society -- A cybernetics primer Cybernetics goes social A social practice primer Chapter overview -- 1. The Omni-Directional Artist -- Heuristic tools on the move Control Magazine Homeostat diagrams Cooperative decision-making: Visual Meta Language Simulation Pedagogical processes Man from the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Modelling the Social -- Cognition Control Centre for Behavioural Art Constructing social resources and social models West London Social Resource Project Social modelling in Edinburgh Meta Filter Art and social function -- 3. Mutually Bound -- Of concept frames From a Coded World A 'new reality'? Willats in east London Sorting Out Other People's Lives Inside an Ocean Art for Whom? -- 4. The Art of Sociotechnical Systems -- Toward a 'depleted, disillusioned new reality' The Ideological Tower Vertical Living Brentford Towers Art creating society: curating the Oxford Symposium and the Mosaic Series Personal Islands -- 5. Creativity in Self-Organization -- Participatory reception Working within a defined context Defined context, social practice, and the multi-homeostat problem Living with practical realities Do-It-Yourself (DIY) aesthetics 'Objects of Creative Release' Back to the Wasteland -- 6. Open-Ended Urban Systems -- Middlesbrough and The Transformer Marble Arch to Oxford Circus, London: Freezone Simulation in Sheffield South London: changing everything A pivot in scale: data streams Oxford community data stream Data stream portrait of London -- Conclusion: On Giving Up and Compromise -- Feedback and multiple futures Open systems and participation Thinking with cybernetics Compromise not compliance -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Art and Social Function

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Social Function written by Stephen Willats and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douments two of Willat's large scale projects, one in West London, the other in Edinburgh.

Conversation Pieces

Author : Grant H. Kester
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275942
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Conversation Pieces written by Grant H. Kester and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Kester discusses the disparate network of artists & collectives united by a desire to create new forms of understanding through creative dialogue that crosses boundaries of race, religion, & culture.

London Art Worlds

Author : Jo Applin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081368
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book London Art Worlds written by Jo Applin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art. The contributors to London Art Worlds examine the many activities and movements that existed alongside more established institutions in this period, from the rise of cybernetics and the founding of alternative publications to the public protests and new pedagogical models in London’s art schools. The essays explore how international artists and the rise of alternative venues, publications, and exhibitions, along with a growing mobilization of artists around political and cultural issues ranging from feminism to democracy, pushed the boundaries of the London art scene beyond the West End’s familiar galleries and posed a radical challenge to established modes of making and understanding art. Engaging, wide-ranging, and original, London Art Worlds provides a necessary perspective on the visual culture of the London art scene in the 1960s and ’70s. Art historians and scholars of the era will find these essays especially valuable and thought provoking. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Elena Crippa, Antony Hudek, Dominic Johnson, Carmen Juliá, Courtney J. Martin, Lucy Reynolds, Joy Sleeman, Isobel Whitelegg, and Andrew Wilson.

Suzanne Lacy

Author : Sharon Irish
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452915164
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Suzanne Lacy written by Sharon Irish and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often controversial and sometimes even shocking to audiences, the work of California-based artist Suzanne Lacy has challenged viewers and participants with personal accounts of traumatic events, settings that require people to assume uncomfortable positions, multisensory productions that evoke emotional as well as intellectual responses, and even flayed lambs and beef kidneys. Lacy has experimented with ways to claim the power of mass media, to use women’s consciousness-raising groups as a performance structure, and to connect her projects to lived experiences. The body and large groups of bodies are the locations for her lifelike art, revealing the aesthetics of relationships among people. In this critical examination of Suzanne Lacy, Sharon Irish surveys Lacy’s art from 1972 to the present, demonstrating the pivotal roles that Lacy has had in public art, feminist theory, and community organizing. Lacy initially used her own body—or animal organs—to visually depict psychological states or social conditions in photographs, collages, and installations. In the late 1970s she turned to organizing large groups of people into art events—including her most famous work,The Crystal Quilt, a 1987 performance broadcast live on PBS and featuring hundreds of women in Minneapolis—and pioneered a new genre of public art. Irish investigates the spaces between art and life, self and other, and the body and physical structures in Lacy’s multifaceted artistic projects, showing how throughout her influential career Lacy has created art that resists racism, promotes feminism, and explores challenging human relationships.

The Art of Participation

Author : Rudolf Frieling
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Participation written by Rudolf Frieling and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fully illustrated survey of participatory art and its key practitioners, published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the hallmarks of Web 2.0--browsing, sharing, collecting, producing--increasingly permeate every aspect of society, this timely project reveals the ways in which artists and viewers have approached the creation of open works of art. The featured artists include Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Janet Cardiff, Lygia Clark, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Allan Kaprow, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Antoni Muntadas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Erwin Wurm. Original essays by Rudolf Frieling, Boris Groys, Robert Atkins, and Lev Manovich identify seminal moments in participatory practice from the 1950s to the present day. A rich array of plates introduce work by all the artists in the accompanying exhibition, with reproductions of significant projects by other major figures--from Helio Oiticica, Joan Jonas, and Gordon Matta-Clark to Rirkrit Tiravanija and SUPERFLEX--rounding out the survey.

Telematic Embrace

Author : Roy Ascott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520218031
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Telematic Embrace written by Roy Ascott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Telematic Embrace combines a provocative collection of writings from 1964 to the present by the preeminent artist and art theoretician Roy Ascott, with a critical essay by Edward Shanken that situates Ascott's work within a history of ideas in art, technology, and philosophy.

Left Shift

Author : John A. Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714317
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Left Shift written by John A. Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Walker brings to vivid life a neglected period in twentieth-century art history. He re-creates a time when visual fine artists, under the impact of left-wing politics, women's liberation and the gay movement, were seeking to re-establish a social purpose. His story is one of a struggle for art by contending factions in the art world, in which artists, curators, critics and organisations - both establishment and alternative - key exhibitions, galleries and magazines, all play a part. He offers welcome insight into the work of the key players and the many forms they used to express radical engagement in the events of the decade.

Set Lighting Technician's Handbook

Author : Harry Box
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136046577
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Set Lighting Technician's Handbook written by Harry Box and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive. Detailed. Practical. Set Lighting Technician's Handbook, Fourth Edition, is a friendly, hands-on manual covering the day-to-day practices, equipment, and tricks of the trade essential to anyone doing motion picture lighting, including the lamp operator, rigging crew, gaffer, best boy, or director of photography. This handbook offers a wealth of practical technical information, useful techniques, as well as aesthetic discussions. The Set Lighting Technician's Handbook focuses on what is important when working on-set: trouble-shooting, teamwork, set protocol, and safety. It describes tricks and techniques for operating a vast array of lighting equipment including LEDs, xenons, camera synchronous strobes, black lights, underwater units, lighting effects units, and many others. Since its first edition, this handy on-set reference continues to be widely adopted as a training and reference manual by union training programs as well as top university film production programs. New to the fourth edition: * Detailed information on LED technology and gear * Harmonized with union safety and training procedures * All the latest and greatest DMX gadgets, including remote control systems * Many new and useful lights and how to use them and troubleshoot them. * New additions to the arsenal of electrical distribution equipment that make our sets safer and easier to power. * More rigging tricks and techniques. * the same friendly, easy to read style that has made this book so popular.

Seeing Power

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612190456
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Power written by Nato Thompson and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our chaotic world of co-opted imagery, does art still have power? A fog of images and information permeates the world nowadays: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the glut produced by the new economy and the rise of social media . . . where even our friends suddenly seem to be selling us the ultimate product: themselves. Here, Nato Thompson—one of the country’s most celebrated young curators and critics—investigates what this deluge means for those dedicated to socially engaged art and activism. How can anyone find a voice and make change in a world flooded with such pseudo-art? How are we supposed to discern what’s true in the product emanating from the ceaseless machine of consumer capitalism, a machine that appropriates from art history, and now from the methods of grassroots political organizing and even social networking? Thompson’s invigorating answers to those questions highlights the work of some of the most innovative and interesting artists and activists working today, as well as institutions that empower their communities to see power and reimagine it. From cooperative housing to anarchist infoshops to alternative art venues, Seeing Power reveals ways that art today can and does inspire innovation and dramatic transformation . . . perhaps as never before.

Stephen Willats

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Willats written by Stephen Willats and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A unique approach to architecture, modern buildings analysed by occupants * Demonstrates an art practice intervening actively in people's lives * Fascinating insight into Willats' 30-year career * Documents projects from cities including Berlin, London, New York

Street talk : Amsterdam

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956260581
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Street talk : Amsterdam written by Stephen Willats and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Get the Message?

Author : Lucy R. Lippard
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Get the Message? written by Lucy R. Lippard and published by Plume. This book was released on 1984 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artwork as Social Model

Author : Stephen Willats
Publisher : Rgap (Research Group for Artists)
ISBN 13 : 9780956902429
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Artwork as Social Model written by Stephen Willats and published by Rgap (Research Group for Artists). This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual, which includes texts, interviews and artwork from five decades of practice, is intended as a tool for any artist or practitioner looking to find a meaningful relationship with contemporary society. It proclaims, and argues for, a culture that promotes the fluid, transient, relative and complex society from which it stems.

The 'do-it-yourself' artwork

Author : Anna Dezeuze
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719087479
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The 'do-it-yourself' artwork written by Anna Dezeuze and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions, or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage spectators in these new forms of participation? In what ways does active participation affect the viewer's experience and the status of the artwork? Spanning a range of practices, including kinetic art, happenings, environments, performance, installations, relational and new media art from the 1950s to the present, this critical anthology sheds light on the history and specificity of artworks that only come to life when you – the viewer - are invited to "do it yourself." Rather than a specialist topic in the history of twentieth- and twenty-first century art, the "do-it-yourself" artwork raises broader issues concerning the role of the viewer in art, the status of the artwork, and the socio-political relations between art and its contexts.

Journey to the Lower World

Author : Marcus Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954683160
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Lower World written by Marcus Coates and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Poetry. Art. Photography. Film. Marcus Coates is setting off on a journey to the Lower World where he will perform a Siberian Yakut shamanic ritual for the residents of Sheil Park, Liverpool. This book tells the story. Edited by Alec Finlay as a "bookscape," JOURNEY features a DVD of Coates' performance, photographs by Nick David and writings by Mark Wallinger and JJ Charlesworth. About Coates' piece, Wallinger writes: "The work treads a fine line between pathos and bathos. It is touching because it has enacted the fears and vulnerability of audience, which are real enough if ultimately unknowable, and finds its own strange way to an image of hope for them to take away."