M.J.M. Bijvoet: Art As Inquiry		0	Introduction	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Conclusion	Sources

Part I

 Introduction

• Moving Out
• Into Technology
• In Search of Another Context
• Contemporary Art Criticism
• Treatment

Chapter 1 - Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Ideas

• Art and Technology Movement
• Catalysts: György Kepes, Billy Klüver, Jack Burnham

Chapter 2 - Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Projects

• The Nine Evenings
• Experiments in Art and Technology
• The Pavilion
• Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Visual Studies
• EAT and CAVS: Continuing Developments

Chapter 3 - Art as a Set of Relations

• Critical Theories
• New Concepts in Science
• Jack Burnham: The Systems Approach
• Radical Software
• Leonardo

Part II

Chapter 4 - Hans Haacke: Systems Artist

• Hans Haacke and Jack Burnham: Exchange of Ideas
• Haacke's Biological System
• Art as an Information System
• The Artist as Social Scientist
• Continued Controversy

Chapter 5 - Robert Smithson: In Search of a Different Paradigm for Sculptural Space

• Theoretician of the Earth Art Movement
• Art as Entropic Phenomenon
• Smithson's Attitude Toward the Land
• Ecology and Technology

Chapter 6 - Expanded Moves Into the Environment

• Next Steps
• James Turrell: Vision of the Sky
• Perceptual Spaces
• The Roden Crater
• Nancy Holt: Contextual Site-Works
• Astrophysical Connections
• Design of an Urban Landscape Park
• Sky Mound

Chapter 7 - Robert Irwin: Art as Inquiry

• Transgressing the Frame
• A Site-determined Approach
• Inquiry into the Hidden Structures of Art

Chapter 8 - The Artist as Ecologist

• Alan Sonfist: Nature as Material
• Nature as a Public Monument
• Time Landscapes
• Tools for Understanding Ecology
• The Harrisons: An Ecological Argument - A Self-Generating Ecosystem
• The Lagoon Cycle
• Mapping and Metaphors
• A Different Function for Artists

Chapter 9 - Toward an Art in Public Places

• Land Reclamation
• Ecological Art
• Urban Design and Landscaping

Part III

Chapter 10 - Nam June Paik: Media Visions

• Early Electronic Media
• Crossing Boundaries
• Video as Communication
• The Paik-Abe Synthesizer and other Collaborations
• Participatory Television
• Overkill Strategies
• Opposites with Crossovers

Chapter 11 - Bill Viola: A Close Re-View of Visual Reality

• Beyond the Frame of the Screen
• Time-Space Continuum
• Levels of Perception
• The Nature of Existence
• Mind-Body Continuum

Chapter 12 - Paul Ryan: From Guerilla Television to Ecochannel

• Video for Social Change
• An Evolutionary Tool for Education
• The Earthscore System as Video-Ecology
• Design for an Ecochannel

Chapter 13 - The Vasulkas: Video-Phenomenology

• Inside Electronic Media
• Digital Space as Perceptual Environment
• Woody: A Code for Electronic Images
• Steina: Machine Vision
• Woody: Mapping Memories
• Contextualizing Virtual Space
• The Artist as Mediator

 Conclusion - Design of Contexts

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