A New Book between Art and Ecology of Atmospheres

Giuliana Bruno‘s book entitled “Atmospheres of projection. Environmentality in art and screen media” has been published by University of Chicago Press.

Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. She explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media.

To explain our fascination with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoanalysis, environmental philosophy, architecture, the history of science, visual art, and moving image culture to see how projective mechanisms and their environments have developed over time. She reveals how atmosphere is formed and mediated, how it can change, and what projection can do to modify a site.In so doing, she gives new life to the alchemic possibilities of transformative projective atmospheres. Showing how their “environmentality” produces sites of exchange and relationality, this book binds art to the ecology of atmosphere.

A New Book on Atmospheres

In his last book “Atmosphere, architecture, cinema. Thematic reflections on ambiance and place”, Michael Tawa investigates atmospheres from a tectonic approach characterising them as the emergent product of the encounter between a mooded human being and an affective, ambient circumstance.

Symposium on Gernot Böhme

The symposium entitled “Philosophie als Kritik und Lebenspraxis“, dedicated to Gernot Böhme and his philosophy, will be held in Darmstadt on 19-21 January 2023.

For more information and to download the programme click here.