`Jai McKenzie's Light and Photomedia is an important reflection on the very conditions of seeing in our world today. By understanding photomedia not through subject matter and technology, but as light-space-time, we recognise reality for what it is: negotiable and vibrant.' - Olafur Eliasson, artist, `Bringing together various pasts and some foreseeable futures, this book offers a considered two-hundred-year survey of `light writing', from the beginnings of photography through to the year 2039.' - Amelia Groom, critic and curator, `Through the lens of the contemporary and with light as a constant, Jai McKenzie deftly weaves key theoretical references throughout her timeline to construct a fascinating history and possible future of our image-world.'- Laura McLean, writer and curator, `Although Lessing's Laocoon is his most celebrated text, cited in almost every discussion of time and space in the arts, it has not received such intensive, imaginative, and challenging consideration by writers interested primarily in the visual arts until this thoughtfully assembled and fascinating group of essays'. - James H. Rubin, Stony Brook, State University of New York