Capsule Aesthetic - Kate Mondloch

How Media Art Informed By Feminism Yields Important And Original Insights About Interacting With Technologies In A Capsule Aesthetic, Kate Mondloch Examines How Media Installation Art Intervenes In The Fields Of Technoscience And Materialism, Showing How Three Diverse Artists-pipilotti Rist, Patricia Piccinini, And Mariko Mori-contribute To The Urgent Conversation About Everyday Technology And The Ways It Constructs Our Bodies. A Capsule Aesthetic Establishes The Unique Insights That Feminist Theory Offers To Media Art And Materialisms, Offering A Fuller Picture Of Humannonhuman Relations. In-depth Readings Of Works By Rist, Piccinini, And Mori Explore Such Questions As The Role Of The Contemporary Art Museum In Our Experience Of Media Art, How The Human Is Conceived Of By Biotechnologies, And How Installation Art Can Complicate And Enrich Contemporary Sciences Understanding Of The Brain.