The Art of the Accident
Collection of essays stating that the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine carries its particular form of disaster but also the suggestion that the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.
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| Author: Various Issued: 1998 Type: Paperback, illustrated, full color Pages: 256 Language: English |
Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 cm ISBN: 90-5662-090-8 Design: Joke Brouwer Sold Out |
With: Perry Hoberman, N. Katherine Hayles, Knowbotic Research+cF, Steve Mann, Brian Massumi, Humberto Maturana, Marcos Novak, Dick Raaijmakers, Otto E. Rössler, Paul Virilio, Lars Spuybroek.
Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder.
Failure and malfunction are inherent in all technological products. In The Art of the Accident, the concept of “accident” contains not just the idea that each machine brings with it its own form of disaster but also the suggestion that in a world of network technologies the old distinction between timeless form and time-dependent processes is becoming increasingly unclear.
Ars accidentalis recognizes the creative potential of the accident, the fall, and the instability of digital media. The book maps the transformation of space, time bodies, machines and architectures through the conceptual and noninstrumental use of the computer.
The Art of the Accident includes essays and interviews from composer Dick Raaymakers, biologist Humberto Maturana, urbanist Paul Virilio, literary scientist Katherine Hayles, endophysicist Otto Rössler and computer scientist Steve Mann. It also contains a series of artistic interventions by people such as Knowbotic Research, Perry Hoberman and Diller Scofidio. This fully illustrated book takes a synthesizing approach towards intersecting practices in art and science, outlining the basics of an ars accidentalis.
Essays and Interviews
- Dick Raaijmakers: Right to Risk
- Paul Virilio: Surfing the Accident
- Steve Mann: Experiment is Accident
- Perry Hoberman: Mistakes & Misbehavior
- Marcos Novak: Next Babylon: Accidents To Play In
- Lars Spuybroek: Where Space Gets Lost
- Brian Massumi: Event Horizon
- Humberto Maturana: We Living Systems
- Otto E. Rössler: The World as an Accident
- Knowbotic Research + cF: IO_Dencies - Questioning Urbanity
- N. Katherine Hayles: How does it feel to be posthuman?
Artist Projects
- John Bain: The Mutant Data Orchestra
- Mark Bain: The Live Room - Transducing Resonant Architecture
- Bureau of Inverse Technology: Bit Plane and other BIT Products
- Călin Dan: Happy Doomsday!
- Diller Scofido: Jet Lag
- Timothy Druckrey: Why 2k Or
- Masaki Fujihata: Nuzzle Afar
- Perry Hoberman: Systems Maintenance
- Jodi: Oss/****
- Kit: COTIS
- Knowbotic Research: Io_Dencies
- Gunther Krüger: Compactor {The Machine}
- Ed van Megen: Asa: Access All Accidents
- Seiko Mikami: World, Membrane And The Dismembered Body
- Gebhard Sengmüller: Vinylvideo
- Debra Solomon: The_Living
- Tamás Walicsky: Sculptures
- Herwig Weiser: Zgodlocator
- Aaron Williamson: Hearing Things (The Oracle)
- Online Realities In 3d
- The Unreliable Deaf98 Website
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Lars Spuybroek is Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Paul Virilio (FR) is an essayist, philosopher and media critic - with a special interest in urbanism and the strategic implications of new technologies.
For Otto E. Rössler (DE), an endophysicist, the Now is pure interface. The world is pure interface. Only consciousness is more (pure substance). But within its shadowy recesses, we have nothing but interface.
N. Katherine Hayles (US) is a postmodern literary critic, combining scientific insights from chaos and systems theory with the literary history of the twentieth century.
Brian Massumi's (US/CA) interdisciplinary work focuses on perception, affect and the virtual.
Arjen Mulder (NL) is the author of a number of essay collections and works of art criticism.
knowbotic research sees the transformation of the public sphere as ongoing process.
Essay by Perry Hoberman, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Interview with Paul Virilio by Andreas Ruby, for the publication "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Essay by Knowbotic Research about their work "IO-Dencies", published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of the "Mutant Data Orchestra," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998
Catalogue text about four works dealing with 3D-space, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of Debra Solomon's artwork "The Living," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of Perry Hoberman's installation Systems Maintenance, published in The Art of the Accident, 1998.
Description of Masaki Fujihata's 3D virtual environment "Nuzzle Afar," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Interview with activist, artist and inventor Steve Mann, by Arjen Mulder, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of the experimental Unreliable DEAF98 website, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of Seiko Mikami's "World, Membrane and the Dismembered Body," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Short article on the "Association for Strategic Accidents," by Ed van Megen, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of COTIS, a work by the artist collective KIT, published in The Art of the Accident, 1998.
Description of the work "Sculptures" by Tamás Waliczky, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Catalogue description of the work "Happy Doomsday!," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of "Hearing Things (The Oracle)," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Catalogue description of the work "BitPlane" of the Bureau of Inverse Technology, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Interview with the Dutch composer and artist Dick Raaymakers, for the publication "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
E-mail interview with Lars Spuybroek by Andreas Ruby, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Description of Mark Bain's The Live Room, published in The Art of the Accident, 1998.
Description of the video installation "Compactor {The Machine}" of Gunter Krüger, published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
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Essay in the form of statements by Marcos Novak, for the publication The Art of the Accident, 1998.
Fax interview with Humberto Maturana by Arjen Mulder, published in "The Art of the Accident" (1998).
Interview with Katherine Hayles by Arjen Mulder, published in The Art of the Accident, 1998.
Catalogue text about Herwig Weiser's "zgodlocator," published in "The Art of the Accident," 1998.
Catalogue description of the performance "Jet Lag" by Diller Scofidio, from "The Art of the Accident," 1998
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