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Critical Art Ensemble: Disturbances

Date

2012

Publisher

Four Corners Books

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

ISBN

978-0956192882

Size

21 × 27.5 × 2.2 cm

Length

272 

Introduction by Brian Holmes

Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. Disturbances is the first book to assess the group’s 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives. Each project is presented by the group itself, from Flesh Machine (1997-1998), in which they exposed the role of eugenics in the fertility market, to the multimedia Marching Plague (2005-2007), which revealed the farcical failures of governmental germ warfare programs. Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics. In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects. Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics.