Virtual memory : time-based art and the dream of digitality

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Virtual memory : time-based art and the dream of digitality

Homay King

Duke University Press, 2015

  • : pbk

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Virtual memory

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and index

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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 "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, 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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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Keys to Turing 18 2. Christian Marclay's Two Clocks 47 3. Matter, Time, and the Digital: Agnes 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

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