Cybernetic-existentialism : freedom, systems, and being-for-others in contemporary arts and performance /: freedom, systems, and being-for-others in contemporary arts and performance. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steve Dixon.
• Authors: Dixon, Steve, 1956-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Cybernetics and Existentialism in Arts and Popular Culture; 2. Visual Art: The Aesthetics of Systems; 3. Interactive Art: Communicating, Controlling and Being-for-Others ; 4. Participatory Art: Autopoiesis with Strangers; 5. Theater Art: Staging Cybernetics, Dread, and the Existential Crisis; 6. Performance art: actualizing science fiction and invoking transcendence; 7. Identity Art: The Adaptive System of the Authentic Self; 8. Uncanny Art: Existential Absurdity within Cybernetic Environments; 9. Conclusion: the eternal return and being-in-new-systems
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 700.104; Art and philosophy; Existentialism in art; Cybernetics in art; Arts, Modern -- Themes, motives
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429632389; 9780429633874; 9780429630897; 9780429030895
• Related ISBNs: 9780367142490
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.