Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of
technology and worldmaking futures 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 Technics Improvised,
Timothy Murray asks these questions and more. At 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-Francois Lyotard, Erin Manning, Achille Mbembe, and Samuel
Weber. Brilliantly conceived and argued and eloquently written,
Technics Improvised points the way to how artistic and theoretical
practice can seize on the improvisational accidents of technics to
activate creativity, thought, and politics anew.
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