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Author Hertz, Garnet, 1973- author.

Title Art + DIY electronics / Garnet Hertz
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Leonardo
Leonardo book series.
Contents Beginnings An Introduction to the DIY Mindset. 0.1 A History of Electronic Art in the Twentieth Century -- 0.2 A Definition of DIY: Do + It + Yourself -- Theme 1 Frugal Innovations. 1.1 Frugality and the Demanufacturing Machine: Zombie Technology, Bricolage, and Hype Cycles -- 1.2 Frugality and Telephonic Arm-Wrestling: Jugaad, Finances, and Function -- 1.3 Frugality and the Toaster Project: Technical Disorientation, Device Paradigms, and Highlowness -- Theme 2 Exploring Technologies. 2.1 Exploration and the Incantor: Bending Circuits, Depunctualization, and Unblackboxing -- 2.2 Exploration and Wire Figures: Technologies, Interactivity, and Radio Shack Cybernetics -- 2.3 Exploration and 20 Oscillators in 20 Minutes: Technological Performance, Hedonization, and the Thrill of Impending Failure -- Theme 3 Building Identities. 3.1 Identity and Taratter MI-03: Device Art, Chindogu, and Alternative Presents -- 3.2 Identity and the Barbie Liberation Organization: Culture Jamming, Technical Détournement, and Mediagenics -- 3.3 Identity and the Stock Market Skirt: Gender, Telerobotics, and Clothing as Conversation -- Theme 4 Anti-institutional Disobedience. 4.1 Disobedience and Robot K-456: Wabi-sabi, Electronic Arte Povera, and Beautiful Mistakes -- 4.2 Disobedience and Hairbrain 2000: Burlesque Technologies, Highlowness, and Neoretroism -- 4.3 Disobedience and Feral Robotic Dogs: Hardware Activism, Communities, and Planned Obsolescence -- Theme 5 Selling Out and Graffitiwriter. -- Conclusions The DIY Mindset
Summary "The first rigorous and systematic theory of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) electronic culture"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis ART / Digital
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 31, 2023)
Subject Art and electronics.
Maker movement.
Arts -- Experimental methods.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Art and electronics
Arts -- Experimental methods
Maker movement
Technology -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022026918
ISBN 9780262361576
0262361574
9780262361583
0262361582
Other Titles Art and DIY electronics
Art and Do-it-Yourself electronics