King Homay King

Virtual Memory (eBook, PDF)

Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality

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Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;analog"e; 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 Marclay, Agnes Varda, and Victor Burgin, King destabilizes the analog/digital binary. By treating the virtual as the expression of powers of potential and change and of historical contingency, King explains how these artists transcend distinctions between disembodiment and materiality, abstraction and tangibility, and the unworldly and the earth-bound. In so doing, she shows how their art speaks to durational and limit-bound experience more than contemporary understandings of the virtual and digital would suggest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375159
• Artikelnr.: 54789954

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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