...Animals, Sex, and Art ...

... readings of experiments in which artists surrender media such as video cameras and GPS devices within nonhuman milieus, inviting animals to repurpose them and redefine their meaning. elephant painting animal art Roger Caillois mimesis haptic ...

... elephant painting animal art Roger Caillois mimesis haptic ...

... of Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. There is a marked emergence of animation as an experimental art form across remote Aboriginal communities. Animation uniquely enables the capacity to present (not represent) Aboriginal life world(s): making proximate and making ready unique social conditions for cultural emergence...

... This chapter focuses on my experiences learning the delicate art of horsewomanship and discovering the art of riding as surrender. I explore the differences in approaches to riding in Iran versus California, and begin to understand the delicate nature of the bond between animal and rider...

... phenomenology of art ochre in Aboriginal art affect and sensation Warnayaka Art and Cultural Aboriginal Corporation This chapter is about the burgeoning of animation as a remote avant-garde aesthetic. It offers a close and sustained analysis of the stop-motion, still-life animation of Yarrenyty...

..., and the spectatorship of human rights. It provides a summary of the four chapters, which respectively address child photography, disaster citizen journalism, autistic first-person documentaries, and animal art. participatory documentary immediacy emergency human rights ethics ...

... In their reparative performance art practices, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz and Sheldon Scott materialize and animate the diasporic consciousnesses that are foundational to the cultural texture of communities of color in the American South. Both emphasize embodied presence to honor the dignity...

... cheerful view is, however, moderated in turn by an analysis of the unsustainable energy consumption of information and communication technologies. The chapter then turns to media arts of the fold and presents a protagonist for the media of our coming collapse informatics: small-file movies. Other artworks...

... How to understand the strange becoming-animal of human figures in the art of Cobra, the Northern European artists movement? In a 1948 manifesto, the Dutch artist Constant frames the postwar situation, in dialectical terms, as a “total collapse” that might permit a “new freedom,” as long...

...Europe in Transition How to understand the strange becoming-animal of human figures in the art of Cobra, the Northern European artists movement? In a 1948 manifesto, the Dutch artist Constant frames the postwar situation, in dialectical terms, as a “total collapse” that might permit a “new...

... This chapter argues that women’s films about other cultures are marketed in North America as humanist fables and that art house exhibition functions as a middle-brow and arguably feminized taste culture. It takes as case studies prominent women directors whose diasporic visions of “home” solicit...

..., in fact, often essential elements in the production of what should be called binding energies—to wit, most African art objects. Such is the primary meaning of the concept of animism. This gesture of distancing is necessary in order to reinvest the zone of indeterminacy that these objects bear...

... as the African clawed frog. The Xenopus pregnancy test, which was discovered in 1938, resulted in the exportation of hundreds of thousands of animals from South Africa. Reenacting this test in a Brooklyn art gallery in 2012, a group of interdisciplinary researchers conducted a performative experiment...

.... In reflecting on the contiguous but abyssal space between plant grafting and animal organ transplantation, the epilogue reiterates this book’s search for a dehumanist feminist mnemonics of our time—when human and animal mind-bodies (as well as plants and other life forms) are cut, displaced, reproduced...

... Evolving through their everyday practice as community artists, they offered neither treatises nor manifestoes, but the straightforward example of lives animated by this purpose, leaving their imprint on the myriad individuals and community they embraced. The Arkestra and UGMAA demonstrated...

... systems, what they look like, and how they work. Game theory is examined as a way of modeling modernity and as one of its symptoms. The relays between game and world in the official world is examined in several different scenes, including Patricia Highsmith’s suspense novel Ripley’s Game , anime-based...