{"title":"Eva Diaz","description":"\u003cp\u003eEva Diaz’s works delve into the intersection of art, culture, and environment, inviting readers to explore contemporary themes through a creative lens. Her titles such as \u003cem\u003eAfter Spaceship Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Experimenters\u003c\/em\u003e reflect a thoughtful engagement with evolving cultural landscapes and experimental narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin this collection, expect insightful examinations of artistic innovation and cultural shifts. Diaz's writing is both intellectually stimulating and accessible, offering a rich experience for readers interested in the dynamics of modern arts and cultural expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"after-spaceship-earth-by-eva-diaz-9780300275704","title":"After Spaceship Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller's techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArchitect and designer R. Buckminster Fuller's (1895–1983) concept of \"Spaceship Earth,\" one of the most powerful metaphors of the twentieth century, imagines our planet as a monumental vehicle sustained by the interdependence of human technologies and natural ecologies. In this book, Eva Díaz explores that metaphor through the work of contemporary artists from around the world who grapple with Fuller's project to promote the equitable distribution of global assets through design, and with the technocratic euphoria of his era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a focus on Fuller's iconic geodesic dome design and moving to the extraplanetary implications of his ideas, Díaz illuminates how artists including John Akomfrah, Mary Mattingly, Trevor Paglen, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hito Steyerl, and many others draw from Fuller's mode of experimental design research to create provocative alternatives to corporate control and surveillance. These artists probe the space \"race\" and colonisation as powerful means to readdress histories of violence and racial inequity. Díaz critiques the ecological costs of technological innovation and the role that techno-utopianism has played in political, economic, gender, and racial domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting Afrofuturism, ecofeminism, and new ideas of citizenship, \u003cem\u003eAfter Spaceship Earth\u003c\/em\u003e conveys the vital afterlives of Fuller's concept for today's world-builders, posing vital questions of its usefulness and limits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462579044588,"sku":"9780300275704","price":107.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300275704-after-spaceship-earth.jpg?v=1775016681"},{"product_id":"dawn-dedeaux-by-eva-diaz-9783775748032","title":"Dawn DeDeaux","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSocial inequality, population growth, climate change. The artist Dawn DeDeaux does not shy away from difficult topics. Since the 1970s, she has been probing humanity's present and future in videos, performances, and installations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue, published to coincide with her first comprehensive museum exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, presents DeDeaux's work spanning five decades: from early multimedia works using radio and satellite to recent works from her \u003cem\u003eMotherShip\u003c\/em\u003e series, in which she imagines humanity's escape from a destroyed Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her work, art is always closely intertwined with philosophy, science, and new technologies. 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Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there: Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, Aaron Siskind, Cy Twombly—the list goes on and on. Yet scholars have tended to view these artists' time at the College as little more than prologue, a step on their way to greatness. With \u003ci\u003eThe Experimenters\u003c\/i\u003e, Eva Díaz reveals the importance of Black Mountain College—and especially of three key teachers, Josef Albers, John Cage, and R. Buckminster Fuller—to be much greater than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDíaz's focus is on experimentation. Albers, Cage, and Fuller, she shows, taught new models of art making that favoured testing procedures rather than personal expression. 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