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Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (Leonardo Book Series)
Kris Paulsen
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Description for Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (Leonardo Book Series)
Hardcover. Series: Leonardo Book Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 54 b&w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 12. .
An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current drone vision works. Telepresence allows us to feel present-through vision, hearing, and even touch-at a remote location by means of real-time communication technology. Networked devices such as video cameras and telerobots extend our corporeal agency into distant spaces. In Here/There, Kris Paulsen examines telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through current drone vision works. Paulsen traces an arc of increasing interactivity, as video screens became spaces for communication and physical, tactile intervention. She explores the work of artists who took up these technological tools and questioned the aesthetic, social, and ethical stakes of media that allow us to manipulate and affect far-off environments and other people-to touch, metaphorically and literally, those who cannot touch us back. Paulsen examines 1970s video artworks by Vito Acconci and Joan Jonas, live satellite performance projects by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, and CCTV installations by Chris Burden. These early works, she argues, can help us make sense of the expansion of our senses by technologies that privilege real time over real space and model strategies for engagement and interaction with mediated others. They establish a political, aesthetic, and technological history for later works using cable TV infrastructures and the World Wide Web, including telerobotic works by Ken Goldberg and Wafaa Bilal and artworks about military drones by Trevor Paglen, Omar Fast, Hito Steyerl, and others. These works become a meeting place for here and there.
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Leonardo Book Series
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262035729
SKU
V9780262035729
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About Kris Paulsen
Kris Paulsen is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Film Studies at the Ohio State University.
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