Machinic City - Media, Performance and Participation

The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

List of contents

Introduction
1 A Machine To See With
2 Probing the machine of performance art
3 Rethinking machines
4 The aesthetic machine
5 Participation in the machinic city
6 Future machines
Conclusion

About the author

Marcos P. Dias is Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University

Summary

The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Marcos Dias, Marcos P. Dias
• Assisted by: Hannah Knox (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781526135780
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3578-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Materialising the Digital
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes, machines, etc), Man-made objects depicted in art