Alien Agency: Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making

by Chris Salter and Andrew Pickering

An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions.

In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the materials of art--the "stuff of the world"--behave and perform in ways beyond the creator's intent, becoming unknown, surprising, alien. Studying these works--all...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262028468
• ISBN13: 9780262028462
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher