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Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media
Laura U. Marks
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Description for Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 61 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: ACX; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital.
In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself.
These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years—sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators ... Read moreFrom this emerges a materialist theory—an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks’s approach leads to an appreciation of the works’ mortal bodies: film’s volatile emulsion, video’s fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as "virtual" and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers. Show LessProduct Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638895
SKU
V9780816638895
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About Laura U. Marks
Laura U. Marks, associate professor of film studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, is a critic and curator of artists’ independent media. She is the author of The Skin of the Film (2000).
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