Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image

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Acknowledgments
Preface: Modernism after the Affective Turn
Introduction: The Haptic Unconscious: László Moholy-Nagy’s Organismic Aesthetics
	I. Identifying the Haptic Unconscious
	II. A Circle of Influence: Moholy-Nagy–Benjamin–Moholy-Nagy
	III. The Organization of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image
1 Bauhaus Biology: The Beginnings of Biofunctionalism
	I. Introduction: The Holisms of Bios—Biology, Biocentrism, and Biotechnics
	II. Holisms of Relations: Gestalt, Aufbau, and the Unity of Science Movement
	III. New Bauhaus: The Haptic Unconscious Stateside
2 György Kepes and the Light Image as Bio-Image: Pop Art-and-Science, Integration, and Distribution
	I. Introduction: The Commingling of Art and Science and the Biologically Inflected Light Image
	II. György Kepes’ Vision + Value Series as Pop Art-and-Science
	III. Morphogenesis: Kepes’ Epigenetic Landscape
	IV. Integration-Distribution: The Light Image from Gestalt to Cybernetics
3 The Distributed Image of the City: The Collaboration between György Kepes and Kevin Lynch
	I. Introduction: The Urbanism of the Haptic Unconscious
	II. The Movement Movement: Contextualizing the Kepes–Lynch Collaboration
	III. The Biocognitive Influences on Lynch’s The Image of the City
	IV. Wetware between Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Mapping
4 Wet Perception: Op Art and New Tendencies, between the Gestalt and Ecological Psychology
	I. Introduction: Op Art and New Tendencies, a Lost Holism
	II. The Responsive Eye
	III. Contextualizing Op Art and New Tendencies in Europe: The Political Nature of “Groups” and the Gestalt
	IV. Perception in the Field: Out of the Gestalt Comes Ecological Psychology
5 The Digital Image in Art: The Generative Turn, Computational and Biological
	I. Introduction: Generative Aesthetics and the Overlooked Periodicity of Complexism
	II. A. Michael Noll, Georg Nees, and Frieder Nake: The Closed Loop of the Digital Image in Art
	III. Experiments in Art and Technology [EAT]: The Open Loop of the Digital Image in Art
	IV. György Kepes’ Civic Light Art in the City: The Open and Closed Loop of the Digital Image in Art
Epilogue: Political Paths—Past and Future
	I. Past
	II. Future
Glossary
Notes
	Preface
	Introduction
	1 Bauhaus Biology
	2 György Kepes and the Light Image as Bio-Image
	3 The Distributed Image of the City
	4 Wet Perception
	5 The Digital Image in Art
	Epilogue
	Glossary
Bibliography
Index