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.
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