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The Arts of the Grid
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Abstract

This introductory chapter explains the aims, purpose and guiding rationale behind this collective effort. It meets the considerable challenge of spanning the rich variety of research topics, methodologies, disciplines and fields as represented in this volume; and expands about the central role of the arts in its conceptualization and theorization. Our inclusionary and multifaceted interpretation of the “grid” has been also explained, enriched with cross-disciplinary references to relevant scholarly work about gridded imaginaries. The chapter includes several inspiring artwork images borrowed from a specialized exhibition entitled “Gridded Fabric(-ations)”, presented in the HIT interdisciplinary gallery in winter 2020. This chapter concludes by outlining the structure, content and organization of this volume.

Abstract

This introductory chapter explains the aims, purpose and guiding rationale behind this collective effort. It meets the considerable challenge of spanning the rich variety of research topics, methodologies, disciplines and fields as represented in this volume; and expands about the central role of the arts in its conceptualization and theorization. Our inclusionary and multifaceted interpretation of the “grid” has been also explained, enriched with cross-disciplinary references to relevant scholarly work about gridded imaginaries. The chapter includes several inspiring artwork images borrowed from a specialized exhibition entitled “Gridded Fabric(-ations)”, presented in the HIT interdisciplinary gallery in winter 2020. This chapter concludes by outlining the structure, content and organization of this volume.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Content V
  3. List of Illustrations VII
  4. Foreword: On Grids and Networks XI
  5. Acknowledgements XV
  6. 1 Introduction ‒ The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts 1
  7. 2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form? 22
  8. Part I: Planting and Planning the Grid
  9. 3 The Grid Specialized: Practical Town Planning, Artistic Features, and Natural Settings in Twentieth-Century Brazilian New Towns 39
  10. 4 Centrifugal or Processional: Divine and Mundane Power in Ancient Chinese Funeral Grids 54
  11. 5 Globalizing Senegal’s Grid-Plan Legacies in Light of Islamic Studies, World History and Urban Studies 70
  12. Part II: Generating Grids of Computational Arts
  13. 6 Between Technological and Aesthetic Grids: Philosophical Challenges Posed by AI Artists 83
  14. 7 Sounds in Grid: History and Development of Grid-Based Musical Interfaces and their Rooting in Sound, Interaction and Screen Design 97
  15. 8 On Grids of Contemporary Art Production: A Convergence of Artistic, Computational, Craft and Performative Making 109
  16. Part III: Kinetic Grids: Bridging, Digging, Floating
  17. 9 Searching for the Grid at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: When Art and Science Shared their Fragments 127
  18. 10 Depth as Grid: An Improvisational Actor’s Perspective 143
  19. 11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability 157
  20. Part IV: Grids of Learning: Linguistic, Virtual, Visual
  21. 12 The Linguistics Relation in the Virtual Grid: A Digital Dialogue 177
  22. 13 Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Immersive Experience using Grid Methodology for Students 193
  23. 14 The Multidisciplinary Learning Grid: A Conceptual Space to Develop Neuropedagogy-based, Arts-integrated Chemistry Activities 204
  24. 15 Concluding Remarks: Grids of Light, Darkness, and Intermediate Shades 225
  25. About the Contributors 232
  26. About the Participant Artists 238
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733228-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Content V
  3. List of Illustrations VII
  4. Foreword: On Grids and Networks XI
  5. Acknowledgements XV
  6. 1 Introduction ‒ The Arts of the Grid: Interdisciplinary Insights on Gridded Modalities in Conversation with the Arts 1
  7. 2 The Networked Artwork: The Grid as Dynamic Relational Form? 22
  8. Part I: Planting and Planning the Grid
  9. 3 The Grid Specialized: Practical Town Planning, Artistic Features, and Natural Settings in Twentieth-Century Brazilian New Towns 39
  10. 4 Centrifugal or Processional: Divine and Mundane Power in Ancient Chinese Funeral Grids 54
  11. 5 Globalizing Senegal’s Grid-Plan Legacies in Light of Islamic Studies, World History and Urban Studies 70
  12. Part II: Generating Grids of Computational Arts
  13. 6 Between Technological and Aesthetic Grids: Philosophical Challenges Posed by AI Artists 83
  14. 7 Sounds in Grid: History and Development of Grid-Based Musical Interfaces and their Rooting in Sound, Interaction and Screen Design 97
  15. 8 On Grids of Contemporary Art Production: A Convergence of Artistic, Computational, Craft and Performative Making 109
  16. Part III: Kinetic Grids: Bridging, Digging, Floating
  17. 9 Searching for the Grid at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: When Art and Science Shared their Fragments 127
  18. 10 Depth as Grid: An Improvisational Actor’s Perspective 143
  19. 11 How to Do Things with Grids: Anarchitectures of Navigability 157
  20. Part IV: Grids of Learning: Linguistic, Virtual, Visual
  21. 12 The Linguistics Relation in the Virtual Grid: A Digital Dialogue 177
  22. 13 Storytelling in Virtual Reality: A Multidisciplinary and Immersive Experience using Grid Methodology for Students 193
  23. 14 The Multidisciplinary Learning Grid: A Conceptual Space to Develop Neuropedagogy-based, Arts-integrated Chemistry Activities 204
  24. 15 Concluding Remarks: Grids of Light, Darkness, and Intermediate Shades 225
  25. About the Contributors 232
  26. About the Participant Artists 238
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