I read this a while ago, but I think I'll need to revisit it after looking at Beesley's Kinetic Architecture over the last couple of days. Sensorium is here at Amazon.
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.Copublished with The MIT List
Visual Arts Center.
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