This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions of agency and subjectivity are connected to four contemporary political issues (artificial intelligence, migration and political violence, contemporary medical technologies and practices, and the Anthropocene) and analyzed against a Western legacy of utopian and dystopian ideas and desires that have shaped, and continue to shape, what it means to be human. The book's main argument is that agency and subjectivity are not universal attributes; rather they are socio-material entanglements and contextually bound enactments that are strategically negotiated by the subject. Thus, they involve conflict, struggle, and other forms of resistance.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, media and cultural studies, disability studies, and gender studies.
| ISBN: | 9780367755430 |
| Publication date: | 29th November 2024 |
| Author: | Phaedra Shanbaum |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 146 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Genres: |
History of art Performance art Media studies Migration, immigration and emigration Disability: social aspects Gender studies, gender groups Ethnic studies Sociology Theatre studies Regional / International studies The arts: general topics History |
This book explores the tensions between aesthetics, gender, and disability in contemporary digital media installations and performance art. Notions of agency and subjectivity are connected to four contemporary political issues (artificial intelligence, migration and political violence, contemporary medical technologies and practices, and the Anthropocene) and analyzed against a Western legacy of utopian and dystopian ideas and desires that have shaped, and continue to shape, what it means to be human. The book's main argument is that agency and subjectivity are not universal attributes; rather they are socio-material entanglements and contextually bound enactments that are strategically negotiated by the subject. Thus, they involve conflict, struggle, and other forms of resistance.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, media and cultural studies, disability studies, and gender studies.
Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art features in the following genres: History of art, Performance art, Media studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Disability: social aspects, Gender studies, gender groups, Ethnic studies, Sociology, Theatre studies, Regional / International studies, The arts: general topics, History
Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art is available in Hardback
Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art was written by Phaedra Shanbaum and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art has 146 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies series
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