Over the past forty years, Finnish artist and techlogy pioneer Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941) has been a composer of electronic music, experimental filmmaker, computer animator, roboticist, inventor, and futurologist. Kurenniemi is a hybrid -- a scientist-humanist-artist. Relatively unkwn outside Nordic countries until his 2012 Documenta 13 exhibition, In 2048, Kurenniemi may at last be achieving international recognition. This book offers an excavation, a critical mapping, and an elaboration of Kurenniemi's multiplicities. The contributors describe Kurenniemi's enthusiastic, and rather obsessive, recording of everyday life and how this archiving was part of his process; his exploratory artistic practice, with productive failure an inherent part of his method; his relationship to scientific and techlogical developments in media culture; and his work in electronic and digital music, including his development of automated composition systems and his video-organ, DIMI-O. A Visual Archive, a section of interviews with the artist, and a selection of his original writings (translated and published for the first time) further document Kurenniemi's achievements. But the book is t just about one artist in his time; it is about emerging media arts, interfaces, and archival fever in creative practices, read through the lens of Kurenniemi.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press, MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-10
0262029588
ISBN-13
9780262029582
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216682550
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Individual Artists / Art Monographs
Dimensions
Weight
726g
Height
229mm
Width
178mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass.
Spine
15mm
Edited by
Joasia Krysa, Jussi Parikka
Series Title
Leonardo Book Series
Content Note
70 B&W Illus., 2 Tables
Author Biography
Joasia Krysa is Artistic Director of Kunsthal Aarhus, Adjunct Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, and was part of the Documenta 13 curatorial team. She is coeditor of DATA browser book series and author of Curating Immateriality. Jussi Parikka is Professor of Technological Culture and Aesthetics at University of Southampton's Winchester School of Art and Docent in Digital Culture Theory at the University of Turku, Finland. He is the author of What Is Media Archaeology? and other books.