Automation Culture

Intersections between Art, Automation, and Living Systems
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-34752-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave BioArt

"In an era obsessed with AI,  offers a much-needed reframing of automation as a process that traverses life itself: from DNA to bodily systems and planetary ecologies. Through a series of thought-provoking encounters between art, technology and biology, its contributors reveal both the productive force and the violence of automation, exposing the ways in which life’s generative energies are captured and regulated. At the same time, they attend to the frictions through which life continually exceeds its automated scripts, opening up possibilities for thinking and creating otherwise."

-- Joanna Zylinska, Professor of Media Philosophy and Critical Digital Practice, King’s College London, UK

"A fascinating and genuinely original collection, gathers an exceptional group of artists and scholars to examine automation at the often-overlooked intersection of art, science, and living systems. provides an important model for future work at the tender meeting point of the humanities, science, and technology."

-- Ari Heinrich, Director of the Gallery at the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU, Australia

This book develops the notion of automation as being mutually constituted by processes of change and metamorphosis. It seeks to stage and observe this encounter—the drive to control, capture, standardise, predict, and determine, set in a generative confrontation with the constant flux of things.
Woven through a series of case studies involving mechanical mouths, petrified wombs, controlled falls, agential neurotechnology, and archival listening, among others, the book posits automation as a mode of questioning that cuts a range of alternative axes through the categories of art, science, and technology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Catts, Oron

Collins, Sarah

Stephens, Elizabeth

Zurr, Ionat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Nachrichten- und Kommunikationstechnik Regelungstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I: Production and Reproduction.- Chapter 1: Politics is Falling.- Chapter 2: Mouthpiece: The Synthesised Voice as Sonic Skin.- Chapter 3: Automated Reproduction— from Culture to Labour.- Part II: Meaning-Making and the Nonhuman.- Chapter 4: Automation Surprise: On Philip K. Dick.- Chapter 5: Shades of Neo-Noir in the Artificial Intelligence Film.- Chapter 6: Ghosts in the Animal- Machine.- Part III: Genealogies.- Chapter 7: Automating Intuition? Genealogies of AI, Affect, and Discovery.- Chapter 8: Notes Towards a Genealogy of Automation.- Part IV: Architectures of Sensing.- Chapter 9: Vital Mechanics: George Demenÿ and the Forgotten History of the Phonoscope.- Chapter 10: Embodied Agential Realism: World's Becoming Through the Neurotechnology Cochlea Implant.- Chapter 11: Archive Listening: Towards A Critical Understanding of AI in Acoustic Ecology.

Über Autor(innen)

Oron Catts is an Associate Professor and  the Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia and A Visiting Professor in the Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg

Sarah Collins is Professor at the Conservatorium of Music at The University of Western Australia.

Elizabeth Stephens is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland.

Ionat Zurr  is Associate Professor at the School of Design, The University of Western Australia.