The Future Is Present - Art, Technology, and the Work of Mobile Image

A critical history of the pioneering art and technology group Mobile Image and their prescient work in communications, networking, and information systems. In Glahn and Levine argue not only for the historical importance of Mobile Image, but also for a critical artistic process that is at once analytic and transformative. They weave themes such as embodiment and its mediation, public/private dialectics, and techno-utopian vision throughout the book, binding these projects to discourses around race, gender, and class, as well as margin and center, the local and the global. In today’s world of ubiquitous digital re/production, networking, and social media,

Product details

• Authors: Philip Glahn, Glahn Philip, Cary Levine, Levine Cary
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.06.2024
• EAN: 9780262548076
• ISBN: 978-0-262-54807-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Leonardo
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, ART / Digital, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, History of Art