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02576aam a2200445 i 4500 001 E8D2CF7A477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211117010121 008 210303s2021 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020048995 020 $a 1478014385 020 $a 9781478014386 020 $a 1478013451 020 $a 9781478013457 035 $a (OCoLC)1202758171 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a N66 $b .H64 2021 082 00 $a 709.04 $2 23 100 1 $a Hoelscher, Jason, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Art as information ecology : $b artworks, artworlds & complex systems aesthetics / $c Jason A. Hoelscher. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a x, 272 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Thought in the act 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Art is fuzzy information -- Art and differential objecthood -- Aesthetic entropy machines -- Butterfly effects in information space -- Information efflorescence and the aesthetic singularity -- Aesthetic amplification and adjacent possibility -- Complex unities and complex boundaries -- Conclusion: Information entanglement and the post-evental artworld. 520 $a "Art as Information Ecology reveals art as a mode of information that resists settling into the equilibrium of an answer, generating sustained difference and systemic diversity that cascades across multiple scales. Based on close readings that reconceive and connect the typically opposed information theories of Claude Shannon and Gilbert Simondon, as explained through a series of artistic case studies from American art of the 1960s, the book proposes that art is information in its aesthetic or indeterminate mode-information oriented less toward offering answers than toward opening possibilities"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Art, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Aesthetics, Modern $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Information theory in aesthetics. 650 0 $a Art, American $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Aesthetics, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00798800 650 7 $a Art, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00815895 650 7 $a Art, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00816615 650 7 $a Information theory in aesthetics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973163 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 830 0 $a Thought in the act. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117013106.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E8D2CF7A477411EC81CA9FE82DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search