(Indir) Epub Being Material
By Marie-Pier Boucher
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.In his
oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that
social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of
"atoms to bits"--that human affairs would be increasingly untethered
from the material world. And yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital,
we have not quite left the material world behind. In Being Material,
artists and technologists explore the relationship of the digital to the
material, demonstrating that processes that seem wholly immaterial
function within material constraints. Digital technologies themselves, they
remind us, are material things--constituted by atoms of gold, silver,
silicon, copper, tin, tungsten, and more.The contributors explore five
modes of being material: programmable, wearable, livable, invisible, and
audible. Their contributions take the form of reports, manifestos,
philosophical essays, and artist portfolios, among other configurations.
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