Machine art is neither a movement nor a genre; but encompasses diverse ways in which artists engage with technical systems. In this book; Andreas Broeckmann examines a variety of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century artworks that articulate peoples relationships with machines. In the course of his investigation; Broeckmann traces historical lineages that connect art of different periods; looking for continuities that link works from the end of the century to developments in the 1950s and 1960s and to works by avant-garde artists in the 1910s and 1920s. An art historical perspective; he argues; might change our views of recent works that seem to be driven by new media technologies but that in fact continue a century-old artistic exploration.Broeckmann investigates critical aspects of machine aesthetics that characterized machine art until the 1960sand then turns to specific domains of artistic engagement with technology: algorithms and machine autonomy; looking in particular at the work of the Canadian artist David Rokeby; vision and image; and the advent of technical imaging; and the human body; using the work of the Australian artist Stelarc as an entry point to art that couples the machine to the body; mechanically or cybernetically. Finally; Broeckmann argues that systems thinking and ecology have brought about a fundamental shift in the meaning of technology; which has brought with it a rethinking of human subjectivity. He examines a range of artworks; including those by the Japanese artist Seiko Mikami; whose work exemplifies the shift.
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