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

Title: Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of DigitalityAuthor: King, HomayPublisher: Duke University PressBinding: HardcoverPages: 216Dimensions: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50dProduct Weight: 0.7 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9780822359593In 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 Marclay, Agn?s 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. Condition: New Item# 9780822359593 Actual Book Cover May Vary Authorized Dealer