Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality

by Homay King

Book Overview

In Virtual Memory, Homay King traces the concept of the virtual through the philosophical works of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Giorgio Agamben to offer a new framework for thinking about film, video, and time-based contemporary art. Detaching the virtual from its contemporary associations with digitality, technology, simulation, and speed, King shows that using its original meaning--which denotes a potential on the cusp of becoming--provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360020
• ISBN13: 9780822360025
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"