In this Book
- Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Electronic Mediations
summary
In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book’s title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? Making an exquisite and unexpected connection between the old and the new, Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts’ dialogue with early modern concepts. Among the works discussed are digitally oriented films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker; video installations by Thierry Kuntzel, Keith Piper, and Renate Ferro; and interactive media works by Toni Dove, David Rokeby, and Jill Scott. Sophisticated readings reveal the electronic psychosocial webs and digital representations that link text, film, and computer. Murray puts forth an innovative Deleuzian psychophilosophical approach—one that argues that understanding new media art requires a fundamental conceptual shift from linear visual projection to nonlinear temporal folds intrinsic to the digital form.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- I. From Video Black to Digital Baroque
- II. Digital Deleuze: Baroque Folds of Shakespearean Passage
- III. Present Past: Digitality, Psychoanalysis, and the Memory of Cinema
- IV. Scanning the Future
- Publication History
- pp. 291-292
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816666201
Related ISBN(s)
9780816634026
MARC Record
OCLC
318216096
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No