Going aerial. Air, art, architecture

Air equals information. All organic air users - plants, humans and other animals - contribute to the hybrid space that is the atmosphere through breathing and sending chemical messages.

Air equals information. All organic air users - plants, humans and other animals - contribute to the hybrid space that is the atmosphere through breathing and sending chemical messages. Unlike other organic air users, humans, in addition, saturate air space with electronic data.
This book argues in favour of ‘remembering air’ that is expressed in the shift from the ‘leap into the void’ to ‘going aerial’. Going aerial enables us to receive and transmit airborne data of various sources that were previously inaccessible due to a lack of technology and, more importantly, due to lack of awareness and interest in air as carrier, conductor and catalyst of communication processes.
Going aerial offers an original account of the most innovative air-using strategies that have been developed by artists and architects in the form of machines, robots, nomadic inflatables, bubbles, ambiances, and atmospheres.

Contributions: Andrea Ackerman, René ten Bos, Annick Bureaud, Steven Connor, Nikolaus Gansterer, Georgios T. Halkias, Usman haque, Steve Heimbecker, Ann Veronica Janssens, Ruud Kaulingfreks, Jaroslaw Kozakiewicz, Dominik Lejman, Constantin Luser, MxHz, Francois Perrin, Sabrina Raaf, Michael Rakowitz, Yehuda Emmanuel Safran, Tomas Saraceno, Scott Snibbe, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Migonneau, Hans Theys, Marcia Tanner

English — 184 pp — 170 x 240 mm — b&w illustrations