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Critical Art Ensemble: Disturbances
Foreword by Brian Holmes.
Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. Disturbances is the first book to assess the group’s 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives.In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects.Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics.
Featured image, "Growing bacteria," is reproduced from the chapter, Target Deception.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
TDR: The Drama Review
Trevor Paglen
Disturbances is an essential document for politically minded students and creative practitioners. Disturbances is not only a document of past political practices and interventions, it is a guide to the future.
FORMAT: Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color / 60 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 ISBN: 9780956192882 PUBLISHER: Four Corners Books AVAILABLE: 10/31/2012 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA ME
Published by Four Corners Books. Foreword by Brian Holmes.
Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. Disturbances is the first book to assess the group’s 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives.In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects.Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics.
