Silicon Forest: The Understories of Data and Forests
暫譯: 矽谷森林:資料與森林的幕後故事

Futurefarmers, Thomas, Elizabeth, Le Guin, Ursula K.

  • 出版商: Sternberg Press
  • 出版日期: 2026-12-08
  • 售價: $1,350
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,282
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 192
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1915609984
  • ISBN-13: 9781915609984
  • 相關分類: 視覺影音設計
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商品描述

Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption.

Silicon Forest: The Understories of Trees and Data is a transdisciplinary gathering conceptualized by the artist collective Futurefarmers that examines the reciprocity between ecology, technological futures, and consumption. Emerging from a year-long research process traversing rivers and forests, laboratories, field sites, workshops, and the campus's abandoned energy tunnels, Silicon Forest imagines the complex interconnections between the ecological, industrial, and technological histories of Oregon State University and the surrounding Willamette Valley, envisioning a future that addresses the impending energy crisis brought on by the exponential growth of data-mining technologies.

The resulting book expands this research both in content and in form, documenting Futurefarmers' first solo exhibition in the Pacific Northwest at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx), Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon.

Futurefarmers' stylistic approach to the book challenges readers to reconsider language, printmaking, and the evolution of visual communication. The artists employ a typographic method they call "deforestation," in which all of the "o"s are removed from the text and reappear as a cloud of letterforms on the cover. The resulting image invites readers to approach their journey through the book as if wandering through a forest that has been logged--or a landfill.

This visual gesture both challenges and animates the critical reflections found in essays by media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers.

Contributors
Amal Alpha, Eric C. Beard, Kai Castle, Meng-Ping Chang, Li-Jing Cheng, Albert Colman, Maude David, Thomas H. DeLuca, Arthur Derksen, Sean Dockray, Anna Friz, FutureFarmers, Andreas Guerrero, Erin Jimerson, Lambda, Ashley Stull Meyers, Michael Paul Nelson, Nichole Nomura, Oksana Ostroverkhova, OOOOO.BE, James Parker, Yasi Perera, Megan Prelinger, Adam Quinn, Jenna Azuraya Rain, Seri Robinson, Joel Stern, David Stimpson, Marloes de Valk, Les Walton, Luhui Whitebear.

Copublished by the Patricia Valian Reser Center for Creative Arts (PRAx), Oregon State University

商品描述(中文翻譯)

藝術家、媒體理論家、科學家與科幻小說家共同探索生態、產業、科技與消費之間的相互作用。

《Silicon Forest: The Understories of Trees and Data》是由藝術家團體 Futurefarmers 發起的一場跨領域聚會,旨在探討生態、科技未來與消費之間的相互作用。本計畫源自為期一年的研究歷程,足跡遍及河流與森林、實驗室、田野研究場域、工作坊,以及校園內已遭廢棄的能源隧道。《Silicon Forest》想像俄勒岡州立大學及周邊 Willamette Valley 的生態、產業與科技歷史之間複雜的相互連結,並描繪一個能夠回應資料探勘技術呈指數成長所引發之迫在眉睫能源危機的未來。

本書在內容與形式上延伸了這項研究,記錄 Futurefarmers 在太平洋西北地區的首場個展;展覽於俄勒岡州 Corvallis 的俄勒岡州立大學 Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts(PRAx)舉行。

Futurefarmers 對本書採取的風格化手法,促使讀者重新思考語言、版畫藝術與視覺傳播的演變。藝術家採用一種稱為「森林砍伐」(deforestation)的文字排版方法,從文本中移除所有字母「o」,並讓這些字母以字形雲的形式重新出現在封面上。由此產生的圖像邀請讀者以漫遊森林的方式踏上書中的旅程——彷彿穿越一座已遭伐採的森林,或是一座垃圾掩埋場。

這個視覺手勢既挑戰了媒體理論家、科學家與科幻小說家在文章中的批判性思考,也為其注入活力。

貢獻者

Amal Alpha、Eric C. Beard、Kai Castle、Meng-Ping Chang、Li-Jing Cheng、Albert Colman、Maude David、Thomas H. DeLuca、Arthur Derksen、Sean Dockray、Anna Friz、Futurefarmers、Andreas Guerrero、Erin Jimerson、Lambda、Ashley Stull Meyers、Michael Paul Nelson、Nichole Nomura、Oksana Ostroverkhova、OOOOO.BE、James Parker、Yasi Perera、Megan Prelinger、Adam Quinn、Jenna Azuraya Rain、Seri Robinson、Joel Stern、David Stimpson、Marloes de Valk、Les Walton、Luhui Whitebear。

由俄勒岡州立大學 Patricia Valian Reser Center for Creative Arts(PRAx)共同出版

作者簡介

Futurefarmers is an international working group of artists, architects, computer programmers, farmers, writers, and anthropologists who form collaborative constellations based on the context in which they work. They have exhibited at the Taipei Biennale (2018); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Walker Art Center (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Biennial 2000).

Elizabeth Thomas produces research-based and site-responsive artworks across a range of media. She has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 2010. As Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, she curated A Variation on the Powers of Ten and co-edited the companion publication. She teaches at California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute, and writes for a range of publications.

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author whose body of work includes 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebula Awards, seven Hugo Awards, and SFWA's Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Futurefarmers 是一個國際性工作小組,由藝術家、建築師、電腦程式設計師、農民、作家與人類學家組成;他們會根據工作所在地的情境,形成不同的協作組合。他們曾於 Taipei Biennale(2018)、紐約 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum(2010)、Walker Art Center(2009)、紐約 Museum of Modern Art(2008),以及紐約 Whitney Museum of American Art(2000 年雙年展)展出作品。

Elizabeth Thomas 以研究為基礎,並回應特定場域,運用多種媒材創作藝術作品。自 2010 年起,她便與 Futurefarmers 合作。擔任 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum 的 Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator 期間,她策劃了《A Variation on the Powers of Ten》,並共同編輯其配套出版品。她目前於 California College of the Arts 與 San Francisco Art Institute 任教,並為多種出版物撰稿。

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin(1929–2018)是一位備受推崇的作家,其作品包括 23 部小說、12 冊短篇小說集、11 冊詩集、13 部兒童讀物、5 部散文集,以及 4 部翻譯作品。她作品的廣度與想像力為她贏得 6 座 Nebula Awards、7 座 Hugo Awards、SFWA Grand Master 稱號,以及 PEN/Malamud Award 等眾多獎項。