The Next Thing
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The Next Thing

Art in the Twenty-first Century

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eBook - ePub

The Next Thing

Art in the Twenty-first Century

About this book

The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-first Century is a highly visual collection of essays about the future of art and the art of the future. This anthology brings together writings by world-renown theorists, artists, critics, novelists and philosophers, all of them engaged in current discussions about new and emerging artistic trends and sensibilities. From "post-human" installations, to transgenic experimentations, from tele-presence performance, to nano design, digital-fiction, virtual urbanism or "guerilla art", new tendencies, are redefining both the boundaries of Meaning and what it means to be Human. The essays comprising The Next Thing identify the impact of these new trends and anticipate possible zeitgeists that will define our century. This anthology counts with contributions by Stelarc, Liliana Porter, Ana Tiscornia, Mieke Bal, Polona Tratnik, Hagi Kenaan, Sue "Johnny" Golding, Pablo Baler, Mark Axelrod, Glenn Harper, Jan Garden Castro, Salima Hashmi, Rashid Rana, Huma Mulji, Ajesha Jatoi, Quddus Mirza, and Naazish Ata-Ullah. Like the artworks here discussed, the book itself is endowed with a transformative power and a subversive understanding of the limits of human identity. The Next Thing challenges perception, defies our imagination and pushes the boundaries of both ethics and aesthetics. For more information on The Next Thing and Pablo Baler, please visit: http://www.pablobaler.com/.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781611474527
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Special Thanks
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. The Thing, Next
  5. Chapter 1: Time Comes to Art from the Future
  6. Chapter 2: Manifesto for the Next Art
  7. Chapter 3: The Critical Art of the Future
  8. Chapter 4: Kindle, Kindle Burning Bright; or, Twenty-First-Century Fiction and the Poetics of Such
  9. Chapter 5: Art/Aesthetics in the Next 100 Years—A Dialogue
  10. Chapter 6: Affect and the Space We Share: Three Forms of Installation Art
  11. Chapter 7: Art Futurecast: Merging Object with Subject
  12. Chapter 8: Axonometry of the Future; or, Prophecies for the Twenty-First Century
  13. Chapter 9: Ana-Materialism and the Pineal Eye: Becoming Mouth-Breast
  14. Chapter 10: Interrupted Reading: The Aesthetics of Metastasis
  15. Chapter 11: ALIVENESS & AFFECT: ALTERNATE ART & ANATOMIES
  16. About the Contributors