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- Touch: Sensuous Theory And Multisensory Media
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
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In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself.
These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years—sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists.
From this emerges a materialist theory—an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks’s approach leads to an appreciation of the works’ mortal bodies: film’s volatile emulsion, video’s fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as "virtual" and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.
These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years—sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists.
From this emerges a materialist theory—an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks’s approach leads to an appreciation of the works’ mortal bodies: film’s volatile emulsion, video’s fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as "virtual" and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xxii
- 1. Video Haptics and Erotics
- pp. 1-20
- I. The Haptic Subject
- II. Haptics and Erotics
- 4. Here's Gazing at You
- pp. 57-72
- 6. Loving a Disappearing Image
- pp. 91-110
- III. Olfactory Haptics
- 7. The Logic of Smell
- pp. 113-126
- 8. Institute Benjamenta: An Olfactory View
- pp. 127-140
- 9. J's Smell Movie: A Shot List
- pp. 141-144
- IV. Haptics and Electronics
- 10. Video's Body, Analog and Digital
- pp. 147-160
- 11. How Electrons Remember
- pp. 161-176
- 12. Immanence Online
- pp. 177-192
- 13. Ten Years of Dreams about Art
- pp. 193-216
- Publication Information
- pp. 247-248
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816693344
Related ISBN(s)
9780816638895
MARC Record
OCLC
299511580
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No