Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art: Experiments in Cybernetics and Society
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
ISBN13:
9781350203631
$50.51
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.
- | Author: Sharon Irish
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- | Publication Date: Sep 22, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 304 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Art
- | ISBN-10: 1350203637
- | ISBN-13: 9781350203631
- Author:
- Sharon Irish
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Publication Date:
- Sep 22, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 304 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Art
- ISBN-10:
- 1350203637
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350203631