Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau : The Artwork As a Living System 199220...

by Peter Weibel

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Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau : The Artwork As a Living System 19922022, Hardcover by Ohlenschlager, Karin (EDT); Weibel, Peter (EDT); Weidinger, Alfred (EDT), ISBN 0262048159, ISBN-13 9780262048156, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US “More than a cabinet of curiosities, more than a terrarium, more than an aquarium”: a captivating look at thirty years of artistic work by the Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. Working at the intersection of natural science, technology, and art, Austrian-French artist duo Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau pioneered the “Art of Interface”—innovative technical interfaces that enable physical interaction between simulative visual worlds and the world of natural sensory organs. Early on, the pair used algorithms to represent not only forms of the living but also their evolution and growth. Edited by Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel, and Alfred Weidinger, this publication in the Leonardo book series brings together key works of the artists since the early 1990s in pictures and text contextualized by renowned international authors: Reinhard Kannonier, Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, Birgit Mersmann, Tomoe Moriyama, Karin Ohlenschläger, Ingeborg Reichle, and Siegfried Zielinski. In the artists’ installations, which are possible only through interactions with the viewer, devices designed by the artist couple produce novel virtual realities and immersive environments. In “Portrait on the Fly,” for instance, a

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Year: 2023
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780262048156
• Condition: Fine

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