{"product_id":"technics-improvised-activating-touch-in-global-media-art-hardback-9781517912864","title":"Technics Improvised; Activating Touch in Global Media Art (Hardback) 9781517912864","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTechnics Improvised\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eActivating Touch in Global Media Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTimothy Murray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517912864\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 February 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 27 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.536 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"In this moment when quarantines, lockdowns, masking, and social distancing regulations put a premium on the haptic, Timothy Murray’s book showcases the aesthetic exuberance and technical mastery of cutting-edge media artists who touch us through our screens. Tactical as well as tactile, touch, for Murray, is both active and activist-feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist. Drawing from decades of theorizing, critiquing, researching, curating, and archiving at the intersection of the digital and the performative, Murray argues for the essential significance of the improvisational turn from Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, India, Palestine, Australia, Bolivia, and Ghana to New York and far beyond. Murray introduces us to a world of media artists to embrace… if only virtually.\" -Gina Marchetti, author of \u003ci\u003eCiting China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eTechnics Improvised\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Murray brings together, revises, and remediates previously published essays, improvising an epistemological reading of five decades of what he terms new media art’s ‘incorporeal materiality.’ The first-person perspective Murray brings to his subject matter is invaluable: it reflects his participation-observation in the archive that he dis\/assembles, his activating work against the enclosure of ‘new media’ as historical object.\" -Amy Sara Carroll, author of \u003ci\u003eREMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Murray uses his book to introduce artists working in digital and electronic media and traces their struggle against the government surveillance and corporate culture that control digital tools.\" -\u003ci\u003eCornell Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this challenging work, 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. How do inventive combinations of artistic and theoretical improvisation counter the extent to which media art remains at risk, not just from the quarantines of a global pandemic but also from the very viral and material conditions of technology?  How does global media art speak back to the corporate closures of digital euphoria as clothed in strategies of digital surveillance, ecological deprivation, and planned obsolescence? In \u003ci\u003eTechnics Improvised\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Murray asks these questions and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the intersection of global media art, curatorial practice, tactical media, and philosophy, Murray reads 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. From video to net art and interactive performance, he considers both canonical and unheralded examples of activist technics that disturb the hegemony of biopolitical\/digital networks by staging the very touch of the unsettling discourse erupting from within. In the process, critical dialogues emerge between a wide range of artists and theorists, from Hito Steyerl, Ricardo Dominguez, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, Ryoji Ikeda, and Shadi Nazarian to Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Luc Nancy, Elizabeth Povinelli, Jean-FranÇois Lyotard, Erin Manning, Achille Mbembe, and Samuel Weber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly conceived and argued and eloquently written, \u003ci\u003eTechnics Improvised\u003c\/i\u003e points the way to how artistic and theoretical practice can seize on the improvisational accidents of technics to activate creativity, thought, and politics anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProlegomenon: When the Future Ain’t What It Used to Be, or New Media at Risk and the Improvisations of Art \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Activating Technics through Emergent Media\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Tactical Tools: From Fantasy of the Open to Networked Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Ecotechnic Touch: Thinking Technics with Jean-Luc Nancy and Ryoji Ikeda \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Archival Events: Situated Surfaces of New Medialized Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart Two. Critical Performance and the Temporality of Touch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Clones: Genomic Simulacra in the Age of Recombinant Bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance @ Digital Deleuze\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Futurities, Uncertain: Screening Theatrical Phantasms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpilogue. Future Fever, the Exposition: Ten Epistemological Fictions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication History\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619256594712,"sku":"9781517912864","price":68.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/technics-improvised-activating-touch-in-global-media-art-hardback-9781517912864","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}