Page, Joanna, 1974-

Decolonizing science in Latin American art / Joanna Page. - London : UCL Press, 2021. ©2021 - 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : color illustrations - Modern Americas . - Modern Americas. .

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A planetary art beyond the human: -- I. Inhuman agency -- II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime -- 2 The atmosphere as a planetary commons: -- I. Breathing a common air -- II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene -- 3 Art and environmental change: beyond apocalypse: -- I. Art and geodesign for climate change -- II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience -- 4 Science in an ecology of knowledges: I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice -- II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture -- 5 Interspecies communication and performance: -- I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life -- II. The language of cetaceans -- III. Microbe music -- 6 Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care: -- I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation -- II. Curation and care -- 7 Sensory worlds and the pluriverse: -- I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution -- II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art explores art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists' kitchens.

9781787359796 1787359794 9781787359765 178735976X 9781787359802 1787359808

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Art, Latin American--21st century.
Art and science--Latin America.
Science in art.
ART / Caribbean & Latin American
Art and science.
Art, Latin American.
Science in art.


Latin America.


Electronic books.

N6502.6 N6502.6 / .P35 2021