1st Edition

Performative Images A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France

By Anaïs Nony Copyright 2023
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Performative Images draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology. Video art and video activism are analysed together in the book to revaluate key concepts in media studies and foreground a performative approach to the theory of image technology. The book engages works in visual culture,... Read more
Introduction: Video: Between Technology and Performance, Chapter 1: The Volume-Image of Video Technology, Chapter 2: Zones of Modulation: Video as a Space-Critical Medium, Chapter 3: Programmed Life and Racialized Technesis, Chapter 4: Video and the Technical Milieu of Desire, Conclusion: Performative Images as Objects of Philosophical Inquiry, Artworks cited, Index, Acknowledgments

Biography

Anaïs Nony, PhD is a digital theorist and research associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. Over the last decade, she has published articles in journals such as Philosophy Today, Cultural Critique, Intermédialité, French Review and Parallax as well as book chapters in edited volumes. Taken together, this body of work addresses debates about how technology and art shape and affect societies. Her work engages cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and governmental technologies of behavioural surveillance and control to address critical changes in the structure and formation of contemporary societies. She is the founder of