This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate. Performed on six continents during the past five decades, d'Agostino's work lays a groundwork for considering walks as portals for crossing natural, cultural and virtual frontiers.   Broad in scope, it addresses topics ranging from historical concerns including traditional Australian Aboriginal rites of passage and the exploits of explorers such as John Ledyard, to artists' walks and related themes covered in the mass media in recent years. D'Agostino's work shows that the act of walking places the individual within a world of empirical awareness, statistical knowledge, expectation and surprise through phenomena like anticipating unknown encounters around the bend. In mediating the frontiers of human knowledge, walking and other forms of exploration remain a critical means of engaging global challenges, especially notable now as environmental boundaries are undergoing radical and potential cataclysmic change.
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This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate.
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Preface   Part I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Walking on Edges, Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks Kristine Stiles   Part II: COMMENTARIES Chapter 2: Peter d'Agostino: Walks & Sounds (footsteps, noise and silence) Gabriel Villota Toyos Chapter 3: World-Wide-Walks: body-apparatus David I. Tafler   Part III: PROJECTS Chapter 4: World-Wide-Walks: selected work (1973-2018) Peter d'Agostino Chapter 5: FOOTnotes: Times & Places, Walking & Mapping Peter d'Agostino Chapter 6: WALKING... in a changing climate Peter d'Agostino   Part IV: DOCUMENTS Chapter 7: COLD / HOT: Walks, Wars & Climate Change David I. Tafler, Kristine Stiles and Christiane Paul Chapter 8: World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky / Donegal  Peter d'Agostino, Deirdre Dowdakin and David I. Tafler Chapter 9: COME & GO Kristine Stiles   Part V: APPENDICES Chapter 10: WALKING... maps–territories Peter d'Agostino and David I. Tafler Chapter 11: Natural-Cultural Consciousness: in the age of climate change Peter d'Agostino and David I. Tafler Chapter 12: Techno-Cultural Visions: photography-cinema-digital media David I. Tafler Chapter 13: Peter d'Agostino's Interfacing Strategies: camera obscura to World Wide Web David I. Tafler Chapter 14: Re-Visioning Virtual Realities (1990s/2010s) Peter d'Agostino Chapter 15: footNOTES: selected 1970s notebooks Peter d'Agostino   Acknowledgments Biographies Index
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ISBN
9781783209132
Publisert
2019-03-31
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Vendor
Intellect Books
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1157 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
387

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Peter d'Agostino's pioneering photography, video and interactive new media projects have been exhibited internationally and are in major museum collections. He is an author and professor of Film & Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia.

David I. Tafler has published many articles on interactive media, avant-garde cinema and electronic art, appearing in journals such as AfterimageKuntsforum and others. He is professor of Media & Communication and Film Studies, Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania.

Kristine Stiles is the France Family professor of art, art history and visual studies at Duke University. She is the author of several books on contemporary art and theory and is also a curator and consultant to museums around the world.