SK-INTERFACES
Exploding Borders in Art, Science and Technology
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
150 pages
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70 color plates
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7-1/2 x 8-1/2
In recent years, a trend toward skin analysis has emerged in the practice of several artists who make use of biology, bioarchitecture, and self-experimentation in their own work, and Jens Hauser has been at the center of much of this evolving genre of artistic practice. SK-INTERFACES is an engaging, challenging, and thought-provoking approach to how current technologies are changing our perception of the body, the self, and the interaction between bodies, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to the topic of skin, involving art, science, politics, philosophy, and architecture.
Martin Conreen | Times Higher Education Supplement
"Hauser supports the ethical and sociocultural issues that surround the subject matter of the artworks presented with sound philosophical arguments and good references. His synopsis of the Sk-interfaces artists' work presents an overview of what is happening in the bio-arts, introducing new definitions of bio-art as well as its current themes and concerns. . . . The book is beautifully designed and produced."
Contents
Welcoming sk-interfaces to FACT
Culturing Change
Who's Afraid of the In-Between?
The Return of Marsyas: Creative Skin
McLuhan and the Body as Medium
Endogenous Design of Biofacts: Tissues and Networks in Bio Art and Life Science
Fitter, Better, Stronger, Faster
e-skin: Research into Wearable Interfaces, Cross-modal Perception and Communication for the Visually Impaired on the Mediated Stage
Feel Me, Touch Me: The hymnNext Project
In the Face of the Victim: Confronting the Other in the Tissue Culture and Art Project
Harlequin Coat
The Fusional Haptics of Art Orinte objet
Marsayas - beside myself
Extra Ear: Ear on Arm
The Telepresence Garment
World Skin: A photo safari in a land of war
Why Immolation?
The Office of Experiements' Truth Serum Threat: Notes on the Psychopharmacology of Truthfulnes
Wim Delvoye's Sybille II
Immobile, Bleu...Remix!
Biological Habitat: Developing Living Spaces
Light, only light
The Midas Project
Re-thinking Touch
Olivier Goulet's SkinBag Corps.EXT
Biographies
Funders and Supporters
sk-index
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