Dear DHI members,
NANO: New American Notes Online, a City Tech digital humanities journal, has officially published Issue 7: The Aesthetics of Trash. This special issue is the result of a collaboration between guest editors David Banash (Western Illinois University) and John DeGregorio (University of Iowa), the seven article authors, and NANO’s editorial team: Sean Scanlan, Ruth Garcia, and Rebecca Devers.
This special issue of NANO asks questions about the nature of art, recycling, and trash. The mix of points-of-view from artists, gallery curators, and academics provides not just an overview of what is happening in term of trash, recycling, and ideas of new art, but also the changing ways that consumers buy, sell, and understand art. From interpretations of the Pixar/Disney film WALL-E to recycling techno trash, from beautiful waste to hoarding, this special issue asks readers to rethink what happens–and what should happen–to household and industrial waste.
Table of Contents:
◼︎ NANO Special Issue Introduction: The Aesthetics of Trash by David Banash and John DeGregorio
◼︎ Trash as Trash as Art: Reflections on the Preservation and Destruction of Waste in Artistic Practice by Stacy Boldrick
◼︎ Trash and Aesthetics in the Hoard by Charmaine Eddy
◼︎ Out of Site & Out of Mind: Speculative Historiographies of Techno-trash by Mél Hogan and Andrea Zeffiro
◼︎ Notes on Cool: The Temporal Politics of Friendly Monsters and the E-waste Aesthetic by Sabine LeBel
◼︎ Trash Aesthetics and the Sublime: Strategies for Visualizing the Unrepresentable within a Landscape of Refuse by Emit Snake-Beings
◼︎ Drawing a Transductive Ecosophy in Process: Technological Arts, Residual Matter, Associated Milieus by Gisèle Trudel
Visit the journal at: http://www.nanocrit.com
Would you like to be a guest editor for a special issue of NANO? Interested in submitting reviews or interviews? Contact: sscanlan@citytech.cuny.edu, editornano@citytech.cuny.edu
Sean Scanlan, founder and editor
