Contingent Agencies

  • Inquiring into the Emergence of Atmospheres
Monograph

Authors

Nikolaus Gansterer , Alexander Damianisch , Arteaga, Alex , Barad, Karen , Böhler, Arno , Cocker, Emma , Dirmoser, Gerhard , Debris Facility , Elo, Mika , Rosie Isaac , Holzer, Sabina , Ingold, Tim , Kramer, Paula , Manning, Erin , Mersch, Dieter , Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg , Leena Rouhiainen , Andreas Spiegl

Editors

Nikolaus Gansterer , Arteaga, Alex

Location, Date

Berlin, Germany, 01 April 2025

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Book

ISBN/ISSN/ISMN, DOI

ISBN/ISSN/ISMN:
978-3-7757-5903-8

URL

https://contingentagencies.uni-ak.ac.at/publication-contingent-agencies-inquiring-into-the-emergence-of-atmospheres/

Description

PUBLICATION: CONTINGENT AGENCIES – INQUIRING INTO THE EMERGENCE OF ATMOSPHERES Edited by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer How do atmospheres – those subtle, impermanent, non-objectified and surrounding yet intimately affective presences – come to be? What forces enable and constrain their appearance, and how do they relate to one another? How to research these complex processes in a non-reductive way? Contingent Agencies, an artistic research project initiated by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer, explores the dynamic relationship between human and non-human agencies as enabling conditions for the emergence of atmospheres. This cross-disciplinary investigation is conducted through multimodal practices of notation, reflection, showing, and sharing realized in diverse media within different theoretical frameworks such as phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism. A group of internationally renowned authors explores the emergence of atmospheres through diverse perspectives, including art, artistic research, western and non-western philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and quantum physics. The present book, complemented by an extensive online archive, features multiple research artifacts – including texts, drawings, photo series, diagrams, sound recordings, and video stills – as an invitation for a wider community to join the inquiry. Also available as Open Access: https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/detail/o:74284

Volume/Issue, Pages

440

Language, Format, Material, Edition

English, DIN A4

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Published By: Nikolaus Gansterer | Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien | Publication Date: 09 March 2026, 22:29 | Edit Date: 11 March 2026, 16:28