Roberta Buiani
Viral Behaviors: Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts
Viral Behaviors: Viruses and Viral Phenomena across Science, Technology, and the Arts
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Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viral agents, challenging the notion of measuring and dissecting them. It examines the struggles and successes of science and technology to tame their elusive nature and behavior, and the potential of art-based and cross-disciplinary collaborations to better communicate their complex making and entanglement with the world. It reveals surprising similarities between biological and informational viruses and their histories and manifestations, and highlights the contribution of non-measurable or non-traditional practices in their construction and dissemination.
Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 19 September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viral agents in a new era of global virology. It examines the struggles and successes of science and technology to tame the elusive nature and behavior of viruses and the potential of art-based and cross-disciplinary collaborations to better communicate their complex making and intense entanglement with the world at large. Combining perspectives from art, philosophy, science, and technology, it places biological and informational viruses alongside each other, revealing that, while the two types of agents affect the world in very different ways, their histories and manifestations contain surprising similarities that speak to a cultural continuum. The book unravels the extraordinary mobility of viruses across disciplines and their intersection with all aspects of culture, rather than their import within one specific disciplinary realm. It shows how the numerous attempts by artists, scientists, and professionals to tackle, represent, and appropriate viruses, and their intricate dynamism, can lead to new nuanced and sophisticated understandings of these substances and their related phenomena, and reveals the contribution of non-measurable aspects of viruses to our understanding of the world.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350419421
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