Main entry:

Antonelli, Paola, organizer, curator, author.

Title & Author:

The Neri Oxman material ecology catalogue / Paola Antonelli with Anna Burckhardt ; edited by Emily Hall and Jennifer Liese.

Publication:

New York, New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2020]
New York, New York ; London, England : Artbook · D.A.P. : Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Istanbul, Turkey : Printed and bound by Ofset Yapımevi.
©2020.

Description:

181 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 22-May 25, 2020.
Designed by Irma Boom.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- The natural evolution of architecture / Paola Antonelli -- Limbs of nature / Hadas A. Steiner -- Materialecology -- Armour / Metamesh -- Raycounting -- Cartesian wax -- Monocoque / Beast -- Extrusions -- Aguahoja -- Silk Pavilion -- Glass -- Infusions -- Imaginary beings -- Vespers / Lazarus -- Totems.
Includes reproductions of CCA collection material.

Exhibitions:

"Neri Oxman: Material Ecology" : February 22-May 25, 2020, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States.

Summary:

"Neri Oxman calls her design approach material ecology--a process that draws on the structural, systemic, and aesthetic wisdom of nature, distilled and deployed through computation and digital fabrication. Throughout her twenty-year career, she has been a pioneer of new materials and construction processes, and a catalyst for dynamic interdisciplinary collaborations. With the Mediated Matter Group, her research team at the MIT Media Lab, Oxman has pursued rigorous and daring experimentation that is grounded in science, propelled by visionary thinking, and distinguished by formal elegance. Published to accompany a monographic exhibition of Oxman's work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NeriOxman: Material Ecology features essays by Paola Antonelli and Hadas A. Steiner. Its design, by Irma Bloom, pays homage to Stewart Brand's legendary Whole Earth Catalog, which celebrated and provided resources for a new era of awareness in the late 1960s. This volume, in turn, heralds a new era of ecological awareness--one in which the genius of nature can be harnessed, as Oxman is doing, to create tools for a better future."-- Publisher's description, lower cover.
"Throughout her 20-year career, Neri Oxman has invented not only new ideas for materials, buildings and construction processes, but also new frameworks for interdisciplinary--and interspecies--collaborations. She coined the term "material ecology" to describe her process of producing techniques and objects informed by the structural, systemic and aesthetic wisdom of nature, from the shells of crustaceans to the flow of human breathing. Groundbreaking for its solid technological and scientific basis, its rigorous and daring experimentation, its visionary philosophy and its unquestionable attention to formal elegance, Oxman's work operates at the intersection of biology, engineering, architecture and artistic design, material science and computer science. This book--designed by Irma Boom and published to accompany a midcareer retrospective of Oxman's work--highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the designer's practice. It demonstrates how Oxman's contributions allow us to question and redefine the idea of modernism--a concept in constant evolution--and of organic design. Some of the projects featured in the book and exhibition include the Silk Pavilion, which harnesses silkworms' ability to generate a 3-D cocoon out of a single thread silk in order to create architectural constructions; Aguahoja, a water-based fabrication platform that prints structures made out of different biopolymers; and Glass, an additive manufacturing technology for 3-D printing optically transparent glass structures at architectural dimensions."-- Description from Artbook.com, accessed 20221114.

ISBN:

9781633451056 (paperback)
1633451054

Subject:

Oxman, Neri, 1976- Exhibitions.
Oxman, Neri, 1976- Criticism and interpretation.
Oxman, Neri, 1976- Themes, motives.
Oxman, Neri,
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Exhibitions 21st century.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Ecology in art Exhibitions.
Design and technology Exhibitions.
Industrial design History 21st century Exhibitions.
Three-dimensional printing.
Three-dimensional modeling.
Art and science 21st century Exhibitions.
Art, Israeli 21st century Exhibitions.
Art, American 21st century Exhibitions.
Art and science Exhibitions.
Printing, Three-Dimensional
Design et technologie Expositions.
Design Histoire 21e siècle Expositions.
Impression tridimensionnelle.
Modélisation tridimensionnelle.
Art et sciences Expositions.
Art israélien 21e siècle Expositions.
Art et sciences 21e siècle Expositions.
Art américain 21e siècle Expositions.
3-D printing.
Industrial design History Exhibitions. 21st century.
Art, Israeli Exhibitions. 21st century.
Themes, motives
Art, American
Industrial design
Ecology in art
Design and technology
Art, Israeli
Art and science
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works
Essays
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Art criticism
History
Exhibition catalogs
Tentoonstellingscatalogi (vorm)
Catalogues d'exposition.
Critiques d'art.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Lowry, Glenn D., writer of foreword.
Burckhardt, Anna, organzier, curator, contributor.
Hall, Emily, editor.
Liese, Jennifer, editor.
Boom, Irma, book designer.
Oxman, Neri, 1976- artist.
Burckhardt, Anna, curator, contributor.
Hall, Emily. editor.
Liese, Jennifer. editor.
Oxman, Neri, 1976- Works. Selections.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) host institution.
United States New York (State) New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307910
Call No.: BIB 253371
Status: Available