Title & Author:

Experience : culture, cognition, and the common sense / Jones Mather, Uchill, eds.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by the MIT Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

351 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
"This book was supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology"--Page 2.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
See-through compass / Olafur Eliasson -- Smelling Zöllner stripes / Carsten Höller -- Gradient flip / Tauba Auerbach -- Foreword / Leila W. Kinney -- I. Opening : Modeling / Caroline A. Jones -- Mediating / Rebecca Uchill -- Analogies / David Mather -- II. Seeing : Amphibian / Tauba Auerbach -- Processing / Bevil R. Conway -- Mathematizing / Alma Steingart -- Moralizing / Michael Rossi -- III. Sounding : Closed book / Alvin Lucier -- I am sitting in a room / Alvin Lucier -- Music for solo performer / Alvin Lucier -- Resonance / Alvin Lucier, Brian Kane -- Feeling / Adam Frank -- Modulation / Mara Mills -- Transducing / Stefan Helmreich -- IV. Sensing : Actions / Tomás Saraceno -- Social strings / Tomás Saraceno -- Intuiting / Josh Tenenbaum -- Tracking / Natasha Schüll -- Self of sense / Leah Kelly -- Lightning / Douglas Kahn -- Understanding / Alva Noë -- V. Experiencing : On experience / Tino Sehgal, Arno Raffeiner -- Bodily framing / Vittorio Gallese -- "Consciousness" / William James -- Visual and tactual / Edmund Husserl -- Having an experience / John Dewey -- Experience process: space poems / Renée Green -- Experience book / Michel Foucault, Duccio Trombadori -- Historicizing experience / Joan W. Scott -- Aisthesis / Jacques Rancière -- Sensitizing / Bruno Latour -- Waiting for Gaïa / Bruno Latour.

Summary:

Experience offers a reading experience like no other. A heat-sensitive cover by Olafur Eliasson reveals words, colors, and a drawing when touched by human hands. Endpapers designed by Carsten Holler are printed in ink containing carefully calibrated quantities of the synthesized human pheromones estratetraenol and androstadienone, evoking the suggestibility of human desire. The margins and edges of the book are designed by Tauba Auerbach in complementary colors that create a dynamically shifting effect when the book is shifted or closed. When the book is opened, bookmarks cascade from the center, emerging from spider web prints by Tomas Saraceno. Experience produces experience while bringing the concept itself into relief as an object of contemplation. The sensory experience of the book as a physical object resonates with the intellectual experience of the book as a container of ideas. Experience convenes a conversation with artists, musicians, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and neuroscientists, each of whom explores aspects of sensorial and cultural realms of experience. The texts include new essays written for this volume and classic texts by such figures as William James and Michel Foucault -- Provided by the publisher.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780262035149 (hardcover)
0262035146 (hardcover)

Subject:

Experience.
Senses and sensation.
Art and popular culture.
Art Philosophy.
Artists' books.
Expérience.
Sens et sensations.
Art et culture populaire.
Art Philosophie.
Livres d'artistes.
artists' books (books)
Kulturpsychologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Kognitive Psychologie
Art et technologie.
Data visualisation.
Philosophie et art.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Endpapers (Binding) United States 21st century Specimens.
Stained edges (Binding) United States 21st century Specimens.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Jones, Caroline A., editor, author.
Mather, David (Art historian), editor, author.
Uchill, Rebecca, 1978- editor, author.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Art, Science & Technology, sponsoring body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293335
Call No.: BIB 238179
Status: Available