'The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand's experiment in "controlled schizophrenia" and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller's uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman's uncanny night visions and François Roche's destabilized architecture. The art in Sensorium—which accompanies an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center—captures the aesthetic attitude of this hybrid moment, when modernist segmentation of the senses is giving way to dramatic multisensory mixes or transpositions. Artwork by each artist appears with an analytical essay by a curator, all of it prefaced by an anchoring essay on "The Mediated Sensorium" by Caroline Jones. In the second half of Sensorium, scholars, scientists, and writers contribute entries to an "Abecedarius of the New Sensorium." These short, playful pieces include Bruno Latour on "Air," Barbara Maria Stafford on "Hedonics," Michel Foucault (from a little-known 1966 radio lecture) on the "Utopian Body," Donna Haraway on "Compoundings," and Neal Stephenson on the "Viral." Sensorium is both forensic and diagnostic, viewing the culture of the technologized body from the inside, by means of contemporary artists' provocations, and from a distance, in essays that situate it historically and intellectually.' (from website of the MIT Press)

Only the artists with Asian backgrounds are listed below. 
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Onsite

Location code
REF.JOC
Language

English

Keyword
Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

258

ISBN / ISSN

9780262101172

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

The Mediated Sensorium - Caroline A. JONES, Caroline A. JONES

Curatorial Essays/Artist Statements

Mathieu Briand - Yuko HASEGAWA, 長谷川祐子

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller - Marjory JACOBSON

Natascha Sadr Haghighian - Bill ARNING

Ryoji Ikeda - Yuko HASEGAWA, 長谷川祐子

Christian Jankowski - Bill ARNING, Joe HALDEMAN

Bruce Nauman - Jane FARVER

Francois Roche and R&Sie(n) - Jane FARVER

Anri Sala - Marjory JACOBSON

Sissel Tolaas - Bill ARNING

Abecedarius

Air - Bruno LATOUR

Artificial - Mark DOTY

Auditory - Michael BULL

Biomimetics - Caroline A. JONES, Caroline A. JONES

Compoundings - Donna HARAWAY

Control - Chris CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Corpus - Stephen WILSON

Decorporealization - Amelia JONES

Ether

- Caroline A. JONES

Fragrance - Constance CLASSEN

Godscan - Peter LUNENFELD

Hedonics - Barbara Maria STAFFORD

Identity Theft - Caroline BASSETT

IPod - Michael BULL

Kinaesthesia - Zeynep CELIK

Labanotation - Yvonne RAINER

Mediation - Michael BULL

Mental Image - Stephen M. KOSSLYN

Nanofacture - Peter L. GALISON

Networked Eyes - William J. MITCHELL

Neurodynamics - Barbara Maria STAFFORD

Neuroexistentialism - Joseph DUMIT

Ocularity - Martin JAY

Prosthetics - Bill ARNING

Remote Sensing - Caroline BASSETT

Robotics - Chris CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Spectral - Jonathan CRARY

Surveillant - Thomas Y. LEVIN

Synaesthesia - Caroline A. JONES, Caroline A. JONES

Tethering - Sherry TURKLE

Umami - Hiroko KIKUCHI

Utopian Body - Michel FOUCAULT

Viral - Neal STEPHENSON

Wetware - William GIBSON, Michael SWANWICK

Yuck Factor - Caroline BASSETT

Zoon - Caroline A. JONES, Donna HARAWAY

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art
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