King Virtual Memory

Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7515-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, Homay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Keys to Turing 18

2. Christian Marclay's Two Clocks 47

3. Matter, Time, and the Digital: Agnès Varda's Videos 71

4. Beyond Repetition: Victor Burgin's Loops 100

5. The Powers of the Virtual 125

6. Another World Is Virtual 161

Notes 179

Bibliography 191

Index 199

Über Autor(innen)

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.