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Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
Homay King
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Description for Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
Hardback. Using continental philosophy and critical theory, Homay King returns to the original meaning of the virtual-which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming-to offer a new way to understand how contemporary digital art transcends distinctions between digital and analog, abstract and tangible, disembodiment and lived experience. Num Pages: 216 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 431.
In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with digitality, technology, simulation, and speed, King shows that using its original meaning—which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming—provides the means to reveal the "analog" elements in contemporary digital art. Through a queer reading of the life and work of mathematician Alan Turing, and analyses of artists who use digital technologies such as Christian ... Read more
In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with digitality, technology, simulation, and speed, King shows that using its original meaning—which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming—provides the means to reveal the "analog" elements in contemporary digital art. Through a queer reading of the life and work of mathematician Alan Turing, and analyses of artists who use digital technologies such as Christian ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359593
SKU
V9780822359593
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About Homay King
Homay King is Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College and the author of Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
"[A] bold and far-reaching attempt to theorize the potential of the virtual.... [T]his ambitious book reveals the power of cultural production to open up new ways of thinking and new directions out of the morass of the present."
Alison Landsberg
Critical Inquiry
Alison Landsberg
Critical Inquiry