Product Description: As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their intersections in light of participatory social media...read more

Product Description: Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972) enmeshes everyday objects such as cars and clothes in web-cocoons of gray thread. At once delicate and sinister, they suggest an overrunning of the familiar by some alien entity. This volume surveys her works and performances from the 1990s to the present...read more

Product Description: Austrian artist Martin Walde (born 1957) expands the 1960s concept of sculpture as a performance in space by making room for coincidence and the viewer's own intervention. Using materials such as wool, wax, silicon or water, Walde creates installations and sculptural objects that invite the viewer's touch...read more