Technics Improvised : Activating Touch in Global Media Art

✍ Scribed by Timothy Murray;

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Timothy Murray, a leading authority on new media art, examines that curatorial and aesthetic landscape to explore how art resists and rewires the political and economic structures that govern technology. Reading a wide range of creative performances and critical texts that envelop artistic and digital materials in unstable, political relations of touch, body, archive, exhibition, and technology, Murray points the way to activating creativity, thought, and politics anew.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Prolegomenon: When the Future Ain’t What It Used to Be, or New Media at Risk and the Improvisations of Art
Part I. Activating Technics through Emergent Media
Chapter 1. Tactical Tools: From Fantasy of the Open to Networked Activism
Chapter 2. Ecotechnic Touch: Thinking Technics with Jean-Luc Nancy and Ryoji Ikeda
Chapter 3. Archival Events: Situated Surfaces of New Medialized Art
Part II. Critical Performance and the Temporality of Touch
Chapter 4. Clones: Genomic Simulacra in the Age of Recombinant Bodies
Chapter 5. Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance @ Digital Deleuze
Chapter 6. Futurities, Uncertain: Screening Theatrical Phantasms
Epilogue. Future Fever, the Exposition: Ten Epistemological Fictions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Publication History
Index
About the Author