Liverpool University Press publish controversial new book to coincide with landmark exhibition at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

 

 

 

 

Sk-interfaces: Exploding Borders – Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society

edited by Jens Hauser

 

• A provocative art and text book examining some of the most contentious moral, aesthetical and philosophical issues of our day
• Contributions from 25 major international artists, scholars and critics in this field including ORLAN, Stelarc, Nicole C. Karafyllis and Julia Reodica
• Edited by one of the leading curators in (bio)technology based art
• Thermochromic ‘skin’ cover design by Zane Berzina
• Published to coincide with the landmark exhibition at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)

 

 

Hauser’s book sk-interfaces: Exploding Borders – Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society will accompany the landmark FACT exhibition. Bound in a unique thermochromic cover (designed by artist Zane Berzina), this book provides an engaging, critical and thought-provoking approach to how current technologies are changing our perceptions of the body, the self and the interactions between bodies. Edited by one of the leading curators in (bio)technology based art and including contributions from 25 major international artists, scholars and critics in this field, this provocative art and text book examining some of the most contentious moral, aesthetical and philosophical issues of our day will complement the exhibition and encourage debate within this exponentially growing field.

 

For further information or to order this book please click link below

 http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3823

 

LUP books are distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. For further information or to order this book please click link below

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/281021.ctl

 

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