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Overview"An exploration of artworks that use weather or atmosphere as the primary medium, creating new coalitions of collective engagement with the climate crisis.In a time of climate crisis, a growing number of artists use weather or atmosphere as an artistic medium, collaborating with scientists, local communities, and climate activists. Their work mediates scientific modes of knowing and experiential knowledge of weather, probing collective anxieties and raising urgent ecological questions, oscillating between the ""big picture systems view"" and a ground-based perspective. In this book, Janine Randerson explores a series of meteorological art projects from the 1960s to the present that draw on sources ranging from dynamic, technological, and physical systems to indigenous cosmology. Randerson finds a precursor to today's meteorological art in 1960s artworks that were weather-driven and infused with the new sciences of chaos and indeterminacy, and she examines work from this period by artists including Hans Haacke, Fujiko Nakaya, and Aotearoa-New Zealand kinetic sculptor Len Lye. She looks at live experiences of weather in art, in particular Fluxus performance and contemporary art that makes use of meteorological data streams and software. She describes the use of meteorological instruments, including remote satellite sensors, to create affective atmospheres; online projects and participatory performances that create a new form of ""social meteorology""; works that respond directly to climate change, many from the Global South; artist-activists who engage with the earth's diminishing cryosphere; and a speculative art in the form of quasi-scientific experiments. Art's current eddies of activity around the weather, Randerson writes, perturb the scientific hold on facts and offer questions of value in their place." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology) , Roger F. Malina (Leonardo Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST) , Sean Cubitt (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9780262038270ISBN 10: 0262038277 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 October 2018 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJanine Randerson is a media artist and curator and Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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