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001			on1154411046
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105135.0
008			200515s2020 nyu ob 001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT _dEBLCP _dYDX _dJSTOR
020			_a9780231547208 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aNX650 _b.I546 2020
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHouser, Heather, _e1
245	1	0	_aInfowhelm : _benvironmental art and literature in an age of data / _cHeather Houser.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2020.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	0		_aLiterature now
520	0		_a"How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? In Infowhelm, Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of climate crisis and informational overload. Houser argues that the infowhelm-a state of abundant yet contested scientific information-is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking to go beyond communicating stories about crises. Infowhelm analyzes how artists transform the techniques of the sciences into aesthetic material, repurposing data on everything from butterfly migration to oil spills and experimenting with data collection, classification, and remote sensing. Houser traces how artists ranging from novelist Barbara Kingsolver to digital memorialist Maya Lin rework knowledge traditions native to the sciences, entangling data with embodiment, quantification with speculation, precision with ambiguity, and observation with feeling. Their works provide new ways of understanding environmental change while also questioning traditional distinctions between types of knowledge. Bridging the environmental humanities, digital media studies, and science and technology studies, this timely book reveals the importance of artistic medium and form to understanding environmental issues and challenges our assumptions about how people arrive at and respond to environmental knowledge"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aIntro -- _tTable of Contents -- _tIntroduction: Environmental Art in the Infowhelm -- _tPart I. Cultural Climate Knowledge -- _tPreface -- _t1. Making Data Experiential -- _t2. Coming-of- Mind in Climate Narratives -- _tPart II. The New Natural History -- _tPreface -- _t3. Classifictions -- _t4. Visualizing Loss for a "Fragmented Survival" -- _tPart III. Aerial Environmentalisms -- _tPreface -- _t5. Environmental Aftermaths from the Sky -- _tEpilogue: Can Thinking Make It So? -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tNotes -- _tWorks Cited -- _tIndex
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650		0	_aEnvironmentalism in art.
650		0	_aEnvironmentalism in literature.
650		0	_aArts, Modern _xThemes, motives.
650		0	_aGlobal environmental change.
650		0	_aInformation behavior.
650		0	_aScience and the arts.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2296524&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hNX. _m2020 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell