1st Edition

Aesthetics, Gender, and Disability in Interactive Digital Art and Performance Art

By Phaedra Shanbaum Copyright 2025
178 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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Biography

Phaedra Shanbaum is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Center for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, UK.