The building blocks of life, and everything else, turn out to be just that in hannah higgins new book. Hannah higgins the deep history of ten grids that changed the world is presented, their evolution charted, to demonstrate the durability of each grid s organizing principles. This is a meditation on media, representation and technology, and makes for a deeply textured and luxurious reading experience. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. She is coeditor of mainframe experimentalism and the author of fluxus experience and the grid book, from which this article is adapted. Credits presenter alan saunders producer mark wakely.
The grid as a fundamental structure when i was searching for a symbol representing modern urban construction, i discovered the grid. Hannah b higgins is a professor in the school of art and art history at uic, where she has been teaching since 1994. Douglas kahn is professor of media and innovation at the national institute of experimental arts niea at the university of new south wales, australia. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this wideranging and revelatory book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity. The grid book, a clever and cogent treatise by hannah b. Hannah b higgins is associate professor in the department of art history at the university of illinois at chicago. In addition to refiguring to new sources of power the grid is aging and falling apart. Hannah higgins on stage at the fluxus semicentenary in san francisco, ca in september, 2011 hannah b.
Profiles thinking through sound richard and mary l. She has received daad, getty research institute and. From chapters on these subjects, higgins moves on to. Buy the grid book the mit press book online at best prices in india on. Youd expect an art historian to include plenty about paintings especially those by piet mondrian, and higgins does, but she admits she sees grids everywhere, and anyone who reads this wideranging book. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library.
Hannah b higgins is professor and founding director of the ideas program in the school of art and art history at the university of illinois, chicago. Higgins takes us on a wideranging tour through time and space in the grid book. It proceeds chronologically, starting 11,000 years ago with the humbl we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid. Higgins born 1964 is an american writer and academic living in chicago, illinois. Higgins is a professor in the school of art and art history at the university of illinois at chicago where she has been teaching since 1994. Mainframe experimentalism hannah b higgins, douglas kahn. Early computing and the foundations of digital art 2012. Men, masks and memory in the first world war,the journal of design history volume 20, number 1, 2007. Woodcut 1977 garth evans, wood, adhesive, 259 x 267 cms. Notated rhythm, as distinct from the rhythm of sung words, dates to the midthirteenth century. Early computing and the foundations of digital art university of california press, 2012. Hannah higgins new book on grids is a confident synthesis of art, architecture, geography, geometry, urbanism, and social history.
Buy the grid book the mit press book online at low. Grids rosalind krauss unit 4 creativity and context. Hannah b higgins is professor of art history at the university of illinois at chicago and the author of fluxus experience uc press. The grid book offers a deceptively simple sequence of chapters on different kinds of grid. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity. Early computing and the foundations of digital artuniversity of california press, 2012. University of hyderabad phd admissions january 2020 session. The fraying wires between americans and our energy future by gretchen bakke the grid is an insightful yet verbose book on americas grid technology. Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by mondrian and a piece of computer code.
The grid book is a sweeping, fascinating cultural history of 10 grids that changed the world, and author hannah b higgins makes a strong case for the grid as the most prominent visual structure in. Read the grid book, journal of design history on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. Along with articles on food and art, early computer art, the avantgarde, and experimental education in arts, hannah b higgins books include fluxus experience 2002, the grid book 2009 and the anthology mainframe experimentalism. Of grids and the great chicago fire the mit press reader. In the grid book, higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world. Early computing and the foundations of digital artuniversity of. Higgins emblematic of modernity, the grid gives form to everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to mondrian paintings and bits of computer code. Higgins is solo author of fluxus experience university of california press, 2002 and the grid book mit press, 2009 and coeditor of with douglas kahn of mainframe experimentalism. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a h. The building blocks of life, and everything else, turn out to be just that in hannah higgins. The grid is a welldone book on a topic that is not sexy.
Her research and course topics examine twentieth century avantgarde art with a specific interest in dadaism, surrealism, fluxus, happenings, performance art, food art and early computer art. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. For thousands of years, human beings have used grids to build structures and to institute laws and social systems. The perspective from 911 on the 50th anniversary of 1968 the world is again in a state of upheaval as a result of a shifting cultural paradigm, this time away from the social values normally associated with the civil rights, student and antiwar movements. And yet, as hannah higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by mondrian and a piece of computer code. Higgins, looks at modular devices across history, showing that where each powerful new grid appears, it profoundly changes the community that wields it. Higgins s research examines various postconceptual art historical subjects visual, musical, computational and material in terms of two philosophically and. In addition to articles on fluxus, dada, and duchamp, she is the author of fluxus experience university of california press, 2002, the grid book mit press. Higgins, hannah b art history university of illinois. Charting the evolution of each grid, from the paleolithic brick of ancient mesopotamia through the virtual. The maintenance and refiguring of the grid for newer alternative energy sources that arent steady and reliable like fossil fuels but are unlimited and less hostage to the fortunes of foreign affairs.
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