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.

• 1.Introduction2. The Spot on the Wall: Chance versus Automatism3. Sound and Phenomenology: Pierre Schaeffer’s Sonic Research4. Chance as Epoche: John Cage and Non-intentionality5. Twisting Free form Aesthetics and the Will: Heidegger and the work of Art6. Purposive Purposelessness: Cage, Heidegger, Eckhart7. Fluxus and the Flux: Husserl, Derrida and Gadamer on Experience8. Poethics: I Have Nothing to Say and I am Saying It9. Contingency, Complex Realism and the Cinematic ImageNotesBibliographyIndex

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.

• 1.Introduction2. The Spot on the Wall: Chance versus Automatism3. Sound and Phenomenology: Pierre Schaeffer’s Sonic Research4. Chance as Epoche: John Cage and Non-intentionality5. Twisting Free form Aesthetics and the Will: Heidegger and the work of Art6. Purposive Purposelessness: Cage, Heidegger, Eckhart7. Fluxus and the Flux: Husserl, Derrida and Gadamer on Experience8. Poethics: I Have Nothing to Say and I am Saying It9. Contingency, Complex Realism and the Cinematic ImageNotesBibliographyIndex