Infowhelm : environmental art and literature in an age of data
Houser, Heather
| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
|---|---|
| 서명/저자사항 | Infowhelm : environmental art and literature in an age of data / Heather Houser. |
| 개인저자 | Houser, Heather. |
| 발행사항 | New York : Columbia University Press, 2020. |
| 형태사항 | viii, 324 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 총서사항 | Literature now |
| ISBN | 9780231187336 (paperback) 9780231187329 (cloth) |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-307) and index. |
| 요약 | "How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? In Infowhelm, Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of climate crisis and informational overload. Houser argues that the infowhelm-a state of abundant yet contested scientific information-is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises. Infowhelm analyzes how artists transform the techniques of the sciences into aesthetic material, repurposing data on everything from butterfly migration to oil spills and experimenting with data collection, classification, and remote sensing. Houser traces how artists ranging from novelist Barbara Kingsolver to digital memorialist Maya Lin rework knowledge traditions native to the sciences, entangling data with embodiment, quantification with speculation, precision with ambiguity, and observation with feeling. Their works provide new ways of understanding environmental change while also questioning traditional distinctions between types of knowledge. Bridging the environmental humanities, digital media studies, and science and technology studies, this timely book reveals the importance of artistic medium and form to understanding environmental issues and challenges our assumptions about how people arrive at and respond to environmental knowledge"-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 일반주제명 | Environmentalism in art. Environmentalism in literature. Arts, Modern --Themes, motives. Global environmental change. Information behavior. Science and the arts. |
| 분류기호 | 704.9 |
| 언어 | 영어 |
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