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- Presents contributions to a trans-disciplinary discussion on scaling and the use of cameras in intellectual and imaginative processes
- Features essays by international artists, designers, engineers, and scholars
The 21st century is unthinkable without its past of unrestricted scaling in almost any way of life. A key driver of technological progress is mankind's ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, scale; processes at higher, or slower, speed, or to virtually apply more or less energy to something. This ability has been evident ever since we began to produce and represent art, yet it gained an entirely different dimension with the onset of industrialisation in the 19th century.
This new book collects essays by fourteen artists, designers, engineers, and scholars. They discuss the significance of scaling for their respective discipline and field of research. The initial point of a trans-disciplinary symposium at Zurich University of the Arts in 2015, on which the contributions in this book are based, was the camera. It combines fast and slow motion, and film speed - already three dimensions of scaling. The possibility to copy and print taken images adds a fourth one, replication, making this apparatus that seems to merely depict our world appear to be something of a much larger scale: a machine to produce thought and imagination.
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About the Author
Florian Dombois holds a PhD degree in geophysics. He lives and works as an artist in Zurich, where he also teaches as a professor at Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK. Julie Harboe is an art critic and curator and currently also works as a researcher amd lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
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Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 14 x 20 cm, 208 pages, 4 color and 73 b/w illustrations - 'Too Big To Scale' brings together essays by a diverse interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, engineers, and scholars who explore the significance of scale within their respective disciplines. The contributions take as their point of departure the camera, which combines three pathways for scaling film speed, lens size and speed, and frame rates for fast and slow motion. The possibility of copying images adds a fourth variable, replication. The camera, as the contributors show, does not merely depict our world but can also be seen as actively producing our thoughts and imagination. Seller Inventory # ABE-1619416888079
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Condition: New. Presents contributions to a trans-disciplinary discussion on scaling and the use of cameras in intellectual and imaginative processes, and features essays by international artists, designers, engineers and scholars. Editor(s): Harboe, Julie. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 colour, 57 b&w. BIC Classification: AGZ; AJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140. . . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9783858817938
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Was wäre das 21. Jahrhundert ohne eine Vergangenheit massloser Skalierung Der technologische Fortschritt lebt wesentlich von der gedanklichen Fähigkeit des Menschen, sich Dinge grösser oder kleiner vorzustellen, Prozesse schneller oder langsamer zu imaginieren oder Energien in der Vorstellung zu verstärken oder zu reduzieren. Diese Fähigkeit begleitet den Menschen zwar seit den Anfängen der Kunst und ihrer Repräsentation, nahm aber seit der Industrialisierung nochmals ganz andere Dimensionen an. Dieses englischsprachige Buch versammelt Beiträge von 14 Vertreterinnen und Vertretern aus Kunst, Kunstgeschichte, Systemdesign, Kulturanalyse und Aerodynamik, die sich an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK zur Diskussion der Bedeutung des Skalierens in ihren jeweiligen Disziplinen getroffen haben. Ausgangspunkt war dabei die Kamera, die mit Linse, Zeitlupe/Zeitraffer, Filmempfindlichkeit bereits drei Dimensionen des Skalierens in ihrem Apparat vereint. Die Vervielfältigung als vierte Dimension lässt den vermeintlichen Abbildungsapparat zur Denk- und Vorstellungsmaschine avancieren. Seller Inventory # 9783858817938
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Too Big to Scale | On Scaling Space, Number, Time and Energy | Florian Dombois | Taschenbuch | 208 S. | Englisch | 2017 | Scheidegger u. Spiess Verlag | EAN 9783858817938 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen GmbH & Co. KG, Carsten Schlieker, Postfach 20 21, 37010 Göttingen, info[at]gva-verlage[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 109144914