Content

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