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      Alison Knowles’s “Bean Rolls”: The influence of mycological and aesthetic discussions with John Cage on early women’s Fluxus aesthetics

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      RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology (RE:SOUND 2019)
      Media Art, Science, and Technology
      August 20-23, 2019
      Alison Knowles, Fluxus, Sound Art, Beans, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Percussion, Feminism
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            Alison Knowles is regarded as one of the first female artists in Fluxus. She is well known for her books and hand-made paper objects. But to her, dried beans were also an important artistic material, which she used for many years, because of their sound effect, haptic quality, and socio-cultural connotations. Alison Knowles’s first multiple “Bean rolls” is used as a representative example from which to elaborate on the special role of Fluxus aesthetics in her work. The influence of John Cage on Fluxus in general is well known. But it has not yet been researched specifically in relation to Knowles, her work with beans, and the sound aspects for these artworks. Knowles’s choice of beans as an art material will be also analysed from the perspective of image science with comparisons to other works from Baroque to Pop art. Special emphasis will be placed on the emancipatory attitude behind Knowles’s art.

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            Conference
            August 2019
            August 2019
            : 1-7
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            [0001]Danube University Krems

            Department for Image Science

            Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, 3500

            Krems - Austria
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            10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.1
            0f341783-91a3-4e2d-9a76-0a3f494a042c
            © Rühse. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of RE:SOUND 2019

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            RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology
            RE:SOUND 2019
            8
            Aalborg, Denmark
            August 20-23, 2019
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Media Art, Science, and Technology
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction
            Feminism,Marcel Duchamp,Alison Knowles,Percussion,Fluxus,Sound Art,Beans,John Cage

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