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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The hybrid practices featured in this collection speak to collaboration and participation, between disciplines and between presenters and audiences. They speak to a fluidity of working in and across scientific, artistic, and performance disciplines." * Leonardo *
"...[a] welcome addition to the field of hybrid practices."
* Espace *
"Specialists interested in inhabiting a range of situated environments from new points of view will find many rewards in
Hybrid Practices." * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *
"This book. . . . show[s] how interdisciplinarity allowed each community to reflect and find its place in a changing world. . . .[it] is well edited and allows a relevant understanding of all the case studies." * Technology and Culture *
Table of ContentsForeword
Saralyn Reece Hardy and Rebecca Blocksome
Introduction: Reassessing Hybrid Practice
David Cateforis, Steven Duval, and Shepherd Steiner
PART I: FALLOUT: CREATIVITY AND INVENTION IN, AS, OR BETWEEN ART, SCIENCE, AND GOVERNMENT
1. Launching “Hybrid Practices” in the 1960s: On the Perils and Promise of Art and Technology / Anne Collins Goodyear
2. Identity, Rhetoric, and Method in the Collaborations of Experiments in Art and Technology, the Artist Placement Group, and the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Steven Duval
3. Fallout and Spinoff : Commercializing the Art-Technology Nexus / W. Patrick McCray
4. Beyond Method and without Object: Subject as Inquiry in the Irwin-Wortz Collaboration / Dawna Schuld
5. Monuments to the Period We Live In / Craig Richardson
PART II: AFFECTIVE FEEDBACK: TIME, PLAY, AND CONTAGION AS SYSTEMS OF PARTICIPATION
6. Sounding Snows: Bodily Static and the Politics of Visibility during the Vietnam War / Erica Levin
7. Contagious Creativity: Participatory Engagement in the Magic Theater Exhibition (1968) / Cristina Albu
8. Programming and Reprogramming the Institution: Systems Politics in Hans Haacke’s Photoelectric Viewer-Programmed Coordinate System / John A. Tyson
PART III: THRESHOLDS OF THE VISIBLE: TECHNOLOGIES OF THE EVERYDAY
9. Technologies of Indeterminacy: John Cage Invents / Sandra Skurvida
10. Dramaturgical Devices and Stanley Milgram’s Hybrid Practice / Maya Rae Oppenheimer
11. Prostheses or Technical Extensions: Rereading the Work of Bernd and Hilla Becher / Shepherd Steiner
Supplement: The Hale Experiments: Object-Oriented Ventriloquy during the Cold War
An ESTAR(SER) project by the Prosopopoeia Working Group
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Index
