Explores how human beings use animals and images of animals to define themselves--and how those depictions interfere with our abilities to understand the true nature of animals.

Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation

Politics & Social Sciences

Baker, Steve

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

Graphic-design group, art house, music makers, typographic sculptors - no phrase can accurately characterize the work of Tomato, the London-based design collective. Since its inception in 1991, the group's work has ranged across every conceivable medium, from photography and film to music and print, and it has established an international reputation with such advertising clients as Levi's, Pepsi, Nike, Sony, MTV, Philips, Orange telecommunications and Coca Cola, as well as projects for architect Richard Rogers. This text encompasses Tomato's output in its first five years. Each spread reflects the personal journeys and designs that form the graphic and commercial work of Tomato. In part an eclectic mixture of artistic concepts and working ideas which offer a glimpse into the creative processes that inform the projects, this text's formulation is unified by a single, mutating typographic text line around which the team's individual contributions revolve.

Process: A Tomato project

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Thames and Hudson

(Music Sales America). This is the third edition for this ever-popular harmonica method. Complete with CD, it is an invaluable resource, giving complete playing instructions as well as extensive information on the history, styles and techniques of harmonica playing.

The Harp Handbook: Revised & Expanded 3rd Edition

Humor & Entertainment

Music Sales America

This work sets out to tackle three main questions. First, why should it be that the animal, frequently conceived as the archetypal cultural "other", plays such a potent and vital role in the symbolic ocnstruction of human identity in such a variety of contemporary instances? Of course, if representation of the animal can be used to make almost any kind of statement about humans and human identity, it might reasonably be asked to what extent the animal constitutes a meaningful connecting theme at all. Part of the book's purpose, however, is precisely to question and to demythologize the idea of animal imagery as a "natural" resource for saying-things-about-humans. Secondly, what is the realtion of these kinds of cultural representations to the circumstances of actual living animals in that same culture, and what can the animal rights movement learn from this evidence in its attempt to develop and promote a less contemptuous and condescending attitude to animals throughout the culture? Thirdly, is the creation of a more "positive" image for animals necessarily the most effective way forward here, or do other more oblique tactics for bringing about change in public attitudes need to be explored? The greater part of the book is necessarily concerned with that first immense question of how animals figure in our thinking about human identity, but it has been the other two questions which have provided much of the motivation for trying to answer it. There is no very obvious reason why the destabilizing of entrenched stereotypes of human identity resulting from the post-structuralist strategy of "decentering the subject" might not be made to work, indirectly at least, to the animals' advantage. Inn the end it should not simply be a matter of our studying what animals already signify in the culture but rather, through a benevolent manipulation, of exploring what animals might yet be made to signify.

Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation

Manchester Univ Pr

With the growing interest in Linux on the desktop, it is only a matter of time until everyone will want high-quality Linux games. With commercial developers now setting up in-house teams for porting their titles to Linux, people are finally acknowledging that the OpenSource platform is a viable gaming platform. Linux® Game Programming is your guide to game development for Linux, covering all the APIs and methodologies you will need, as well as some more advanced techniques rarely discussed in other game development guides, such as neural networks and genetic algorithms. You will also find valuable information on 2D graphics using SDL, Xlib, and SVGAlib; 3D graphics using OpenGL; networking, lobbying, and threading; artificial intelligence and learning systems; genetic algorithms; and much, much more!

Linux Game Programming w/CD (Prima Tech's Game Development)

Collins, Mark

Campbell, Ben

Donlin, Martin

Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade

Artist Animal (Volume 25) (Posthumanities)

<div> Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but rather as beings who actively share the world with humanity. The concerns of the artists presented in this book--Sue Coe, Eduardo Kac, Lucy Kimbell, Catherine Chalmers, Olly and Suzi, Angela Singer, Catherine Bell, and others--range widely, from the ecological to the philosophical and from those engaging with the modification of animal bodies to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights. Drawing on extensive interviews he conducted with the artists under consideration, Baker explores the vital contribution that contemporary art can make to a broader conception of animal life, emphasizing the importance of creativity and trust in both the making and understanding of these artworks. Throughout, Baker is attentive to issues of practice, form, and medium. He asks, for example, whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working, and he highlights the tensions between creative practice and certain kinds of ethical demands or expectations. Featuring full-color, vivid examples of their work, Artist Animal situates contemporary artists within the wider project of thinking beyond the human, asserting art's power to open up new ways of thinking about animals. </div>

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but rather as beings who actively share the world with humanity.
The concerns of the artists presented in this book—Sue Coe, Eduardo Kac, Lucy Kimbell, Catherine Chalmers, Olly and Suzi, Angela Singer, Catherine Bell, and others—range widely, from the ecological to the philosophical and from those engaging with the modification of animal bodies to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights. Drawing on extensive interviews he conducted with the artists under consideration, Baker explores the vital contribution that contemporary art can make to a broader conception of animal life, emphasizing the importance of creativity and trust in both the making and understanding of these artworks.
Throughout, Baker is attentive to issues of practice, form, and medium. He asks, for example, whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working, and he highlights the tensions between creative practice and certain kinds of ethical demands or expectations. Featuring full-color, vivid examples of their work, Artist Animal situates contemporary artists within the wider project of thinking beyond the human, asserting art’s power to open up new ways of thinking about animals.

Trophy Stripers & Hybrids: Innovative Tactics and Techniques for Catching Freshwater Stripers & Hybrids

Sports & Outdoors

Ward, Neil

Hunting & Fishing

Atlantic Pub Co

If there is no eighth day in the biblical account of things, perhaps it's time to add another, now that we have the means. The transgenic art of Eduardo Kac does just that, raising often unanswerable questions about ethics, evolution, biogenetics, and animals' rights, to name but a few of the areas from which his work has raised controversy. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Kac shocked the world, first with a groundbreaking net installation entitled Genesis, and then with Alba, his fluorescent, genetically enginered rabbit. From his first experiments online in the mid-1980s to his current convergence of the digital and the biological, in the Eighth Day installation Kac has always investigated the philosophical and political dimensions of communication processes. Equally concerned with the aesthetic and the social aspects of verbal and nonverbal interaction, Kac has examined linguistic systems, dialogic exchanges and interspecies communication, combining robotics and networking to explore the fluidity of subject positions in the postdigital world.

The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art Of Eduardo Kac

Hayles, N. Katherine

Becker, Carol

Rawls, William

Machado, Arlindo

Nadarajan, Gunalan

Rawls, Alan

Wilson-Rawls, Jeanne

The Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University

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