Too Big to Scale - Couverture souple

Dombois, Florian

 
9783858817938: Too Big to Scale
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3858817937 ISBN 13 : 9783858817938
Editeur : Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag, 2017

Synopsis

  • Presents contributions to a trans-disciplinary discussion on scaling and the use of cameras in intellectual and imaginative processes
  • Features essays by international artists, designers, engineers, and scholars


    • The 21st century is unthinkable without its past of unrestricted scaling in almost any way of life. A key driver of technological progress is mankind's ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, scale; processes at higher, or slower, speed, or to virtually apply more or less energy to something. This ability has been evident ever since we began to produce and represent art, yet it gained an entirely different dimension with the onset of industrialisation in the 19th century.

    This new book collects essays by fourteen artists, designers, engineers, and scholars. They discuss the significance of scaling for their respective discipline and field of research. The initial point of a trans-disciplinary symposium at Zurich University of the Arts in 2015, on which the contributions in this book are based, was the camera. It combines fast and slow motion, and film speed - already three dimensions of scaling. The possibility to copy and print taken images adds a fourth one, replication, making this apparatus that seems to merely depict our world appear to be something of a much larger scale: a machine to produce thought and imagination.

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À propos de l?auteur

Florian Dombois holds a PhD degree in geophysics. He lives and works as an artist in Zurich, where he also teaches as a professor at Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Julie Harboe is an art critic and curator and currently also works as a researcher amd lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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Éditeur
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3858817937
ISBN 13 
9783858817938
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Éditeur
Harboe Julie
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