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Item Details
Title:
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WRITING AND UNWRITING (MEDIA) ART HISTORY
ERKKI KURENNIEMI IN 2048 |
By: |
Joasia Krysa (Editor), Jussi Parikka (Editor), Erkki Huhtamo (Foreword) |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£7.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0262029588 |
ISBN 13: |
9780262029582 |
Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
Pub. date: |
11 September, 2015 |
Series: |
Leonardo Book Series |
Pages: |
368 |
Synopsis: |
Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and technology pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. Kurenniemi is a hybrid -- a scientist-humanist-artist. Relatively unknown outside Nordic countries until his 2012 Documenta 13 exhibition, "In 2048," Kurenniemi may at last be achieving international recognition. This book offers an excavation, a critical mapping, and an elaboration of Kurenniemi's multiplicities. The contributors describe Kurenniemi's enthusiastic, and rather obsessive, recording of everyday life and how this archiving was part of his process; his exploratory artistic practice, with productive failure an inherent part of his method; his relationship to scientific and technological developments in media culture; and his work in electronic and digital music, including his development of automated composition systems and his "video-organ," DIMI-O. A "Visual Archive," a section of interviews with the artist, and a selection of his original writings (translated and published for the first time) further document Kurenniemi's achievements. But the book is not just about one artist in his time; it is about emerging media arts, interfaces, and archival fever in creative practices, read through the lens of Kurenniemi. |
Illustrations: |
70 b&w illus., 2 tables |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
MIT Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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