Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art / / Joanna Page.

• VerfasserIn: Page, Joanna, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art explores art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists' kitchens.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A planetary art beyond the human: -- I. Inhuman agency -- II. Seismic encounters and the acoustic sublime -- 2 The atmosphere as a planetary commons: -- I. Breathing a common air -- II. From the Anthropocene to the Aerocene -- 3 Art and environmental change: beyond apocalypse: -- I. Art and geodesign for climate change -- II. Environmental futures beyond precarity: symbiosis and resilience -- 4 Science in an ecology of knowledges: I. Indigenous cosmologies and cognitive justice -- II. Transgenic maize: between the milpa and the monoculture -- 5 Interspecies communication and performance: -- I. Plantbots and the logic of vegetal life -- II. The language of cetaceans -- III. Microbe music -- 6 Revising systems art: biological time and the ethics of care: -- I. Slow robotics and the art of bioremediation -- II. Curation and care -- 7 Sensory worlds and the pluriverse: -- I. Spider/webs: from connection to coevolution -- II. Myrmecology and multispecies communities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.