Surface and Apparition (eBook, PDF)

The Immateriality of Modern Surface
Redaktion: Lee, Yeseung

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Surface is one of the most intensely debated topics in recent arts, humanities and social science scholarship. The changing technologies which manufacture the actual and virtual surfaces of today are radically altering our perception of thresholds and borders. In contrast to the responses to preceding industrial revolutions, contemporary concerns with surface seem preoccupied with its function of mediation or passage, rather than with that of separation or boundary. In Surface and Apparition, each chapter explores a different meaning and function of the material and immaterial qualities of 'surface'.

Case studies include various surfaces from computer screens, 'artisanal' engines and glass architecture to gauzy veils, the planetary surface of supply chain capitalism, and spatial embodiment in street markets. International scholars of design, architecture, film, media, fine art, fashion, textiles, silversmithing, woodworking and archival practices account for how the material and the immaterial draw attention to each other in both their everyday and artistic practice. Each chapter addresses particular systems (from the human body to manually operated tools and machines); materials (for instance cloth, wood and light); modes of attention, movement and engagement. 'Surface' therefore functions in this book as a multidisciplinary method for attending to critical issues concerning human creative and technological endeavours.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350130463
• Artikelnr.: 60146663

Autorenporträt

Yeseung Lee is Lecturer for Design Cultures at De Montfort University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Prologue: Surface Matters
Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University
USA) Introduction
Yeseung Lee (De Montfort University
UK) 1. Folds of Fashion: Unravelled and the Planetary Surface
Jussi Parikka (University of Southampton
UK) 2. Surface-making in Nuclear Decommissioning: A Narrative of Sludge
Plutonium and Their Whereabouts
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester
UK) 3. Surface Eruption: Machine Creativity and Emotive Data Objects
Barbara Rauch (OCAD University
Canada) 4. The Depth of Surface
Lesley Halliwell (Manchester Metropolitan University
UK) 5. Where Surface Meets Depth: Virtuality in Textile and Material Design
Elaine Igoe (University of Portsmouth
UK) 6. Growing Surface between Textiles and Electrochemisty
Joanne Horton (De Montfort University
UK) 7. David Pye's Fluting Engine
Benedict Carpenter van Barthold (Nottingham Trent University
UK) 8. Journal (2016-2018): Conversations on Looms
Cloth and Weaving
Max Mosscrop (independent artist
UK) and Benedict Carpenter van Barthold (Nottingham Trent University
UK) 9. On Drawing: Transmission from the Lifeworld to Paper at Namdaemun Market
Seoul
Ray Lucas (Manchester Metropolitan University
UK) 10. Archive Surface
Jane Birkin (University of Southampton
UK) 11. Experience
Poverty
Transparency: The Modern Surface of Interwar Glass
Freyja Hartzell (Bard Graduate Center
USA) 12. On Genealogy of Translucent Screen and Rehabilitation of the Ephemeral: Post-Cinema
Installation
Performance (Oksana Chefranova
Yale University
USA) Bibliography Index