{"product_id":"9781350203631","title":"Concerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art Experiments in Cybernetics and Society","description":"\u003ch1\u003eConcerning Stephen Willats and the Social Function of Art\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eExperiments in Cybernetics and Society\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSharon Irish\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt \/ Individual Artists \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Historians of British Art (HBA) Book Prize 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) offered a new means to make art relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, Willats has built relationships through art with people in tower blocks, underground clubs, middle-class enclaves, and warehouses on the Isle of Dogs, to investigate their current conditions and future possibilities. Sharon Irish's study demonstrates the power of Willats's multi-media art to catalyze communication among participants and to upend ideas about “audience” and “art.” Here, Irish argues that it is artists like Willats who are now the instigators of social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSharon Irish\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Affiliate in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. From 2001 to 2020, she served as an Advisory Editor for \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, the international quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology and, from 2013 to 2016, as an organizer for FemTechNet. She has published a monograph on the U.S. architect Cass Gilbert and another book on the California-based feminist artist Suzanne Lacy. She received her Ph.D. in art history from Northwestern University in 1985.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22 September 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350203631\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e304\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.2\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331863445644,"sku":"9781350203631","price":38.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_ffab94f9-3b32-4b7b-8e4e-11457a512cde.jpg?v=1783599568","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350203631","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}