Ian Andrews teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also a media artist and theorist working with generative sound, video and text in installation formats. His areas of research interest include aesthetics, philosophy, poetry, sound, film theory, semio-linguistics and contemporary art.
This is a fascinating book: a rich journey into how 20th century artists incorporate chance in visual arts, texts, music, and dance. Drawing from Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida, Ian Andrews illuminates how chance operations work as a discipline of non-intention that frees possibilities of change and self-transformation. * Daniela Vallega-Neu, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon, USA * How do we form an aesthetic that allows the things of this world to show themselves in all their chance and fleeting unexpectedness? No other recent study of phenomenological aesthetics offers such an eloquent and informative defence of the random in art and its powers of exposure. * Nicholas Davey, Professor Emeritus of Art and Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK *