Screen LibraryExperience : culture, cognition, and the common sense /
Experience offers a reading experience like no other. A heat-sensitive cover by Olafur Eliasson reveals words, colors, and a drawing when touched by human hands. Endpapers designed by Carsten Holler are printed in ink containing carefully calibrated quantities of the synthesized human pheromones est...
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Distributed by the MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Experience offers a reading experience like no other. A heat-sensitive cover by Olafur Eliasson reveals words, colors, and a drawing when touched by human hands. Endpapers designed by Carsten Holler are printed in ink containing carefully calibrated quantities of the synthesized human pheromones estratetraenol and androstadienone, evoking the suggestibility of human desire. The margins and edges of the book are designed by Tauba Auerbach in complementary colors that create a dynamically shifting effect when the book is shifted or closed. When the book is opened, bookmarks cascade from the ce |
| Item Description: | "This book was supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology"--Page 2. |
| Carrier Form: | 351 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262035149 (hardcover) : 0262035146 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | B105 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/E964 |
| Contents: |
See-through compass / Carsten Höller -- Gradient flip / Opening : Modeling / Mediating / Analogies / Seeing : Amphibian / Processing / Mathematizing / Moralizing / Sounding : Closed book / I am sitting in a room / Music for solo performer / Resonance / |