Timothy Murray: Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (2008)

“Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts’ dialogue with early modern concepts. Among the works discussed are digitally oriented films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker; video installations by Thierry Kuntzel, Keith Piper, and Renate Ferro; and interactive media works by Toni Dove, David Rokeby, and Jill Scott. Sophisticated readings reveal the electronic psychosocial webs and digital representations that link text, film, and computer.

Murray puts forth a Deleuzian psychophilosophical approach—one that argues that understanding new media art requires a fundamental conceptual shift from linear visual projection to nonlinear temporal folds intrinsic to the digital form.”

Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2008
ISBN 0816634017, 9780816634019
320 pages

Key terms: Prospero’s Books, Bill Viola, King Lear, Gilles Deleuze, CD-ROM, Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Laplanche, Louis Marin, Peter Greenaway, Leibniz, Keith Piper, Miroslaw Rogala, Psychoanalysis, Mary Ann Doane, Mona Hatoum, Kuntzel’s, electronic arts, Okinawa, scansion

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