Donald Rodney: Autoicon

by Richard Birkett

An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney's seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997-2000).

Donald Rodney's Autoicon, a work originally produced as both a website and CD-ROM, was conceived by the artist in the mid-1990s but not completed until two years after his death in 1998. Referencing Jeremy Bentham's infamous nineteenth-century "Auto-Icon," the work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of Rodney,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846382572
• ISBN13: 9781846382574
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Afterall Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.2"