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Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality

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By (author): Homay King

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 meaningwhich denotes a potential on the cusp of becomingprovides 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 Marclay, Agnès 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.  See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 318g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Oct 2015
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780822360025

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. 

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