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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 December 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474488976
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white illustrations 700
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Short description:
An inquiry into probabilistic modes of sensing and making sense of reality developed by avant-garde artists
MoreLong description:
Konrad Wojnowski argues that the probabilistic revolution, while recognized and investigated by historians of science, has been largely overlooked in the field of art. He shows that the idea that one can perceive and comprehend reality in terms of shifting probabilities was clearly present in the work of many avant-garde artists working in Europe and North America.
Exploring the probabilistic aspects of the avant-garde allows him to establish a dialogue between scientific and artistic forms of knowledge. This is particularly important now, as we become surrounded by probabilistic AIs and while the very nature of cognition is being reinterpreted as inherently probabilistic.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Series Editors’ Preface
1. Introductioni.Probability: From Rolling Dice to Spinning Atomsii.Human Existence Shaken Like Diceiii.Taming Chance with Art: An Overviewiv.Art and Science: Troubled Relationships
2. The Futurists: Hooked on Uncertaintyi.The Uncanny Physics of Futurismii.Immaculate Perception Does Not Existiii.The Futurists’ Cognitive Artsiv.The Probabilistic Mind of the Global Art Marketv.Conclusion – Towards Probabilistic Self-awareness
3. The Surrealists: The Probabilistic Unconsciousi.Probabilistic circuitry of neural networksii.Freedom for Probabilistic Minds!iii.The Cybernetic Anti-Humanism of Lacan’s Psychoanalysisiv.Lacan and Dalí: Paranoia as the New Normalv.Laboratories of Randomness – Bretonvi.The Surrealist L’Esprit de Probabilité
4. Duchamp and Musil: Two Probabilistic Eccentrics, or Men without Qualitiesi.Taming Chance (in Cans, Boxes, etc.)ii.Making Art at the Roulette Tableiii.A Probabilistic Eccentriciv.Possibility Erases Identityv.A ‘Sense of Possibility’
5. Cage: Music as Camera for Capturing Chancei.The Camera: Making Indeterminacyii.Cage’s Self-Determinationiii.Into the Age of Programs (and Out of Humanity)iv.Unexpected Pleasuresv.Variations VII: Amplified ‘Whatever’vi.Performance as Randomness in a Jar
6. Xenakis: Ecstasies of Calculated Randomnessi.Probability and Discontinuityii.Calculating Soundsiii.Probability versus Individuality
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