Research Catalog

Title

Deleuze and the map-image : aesthetics, information, code, and digital art / Jakub Zdebik.

Author

Zdebik, Jakub

Publication

• New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
• © 2019

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Additional Authors

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Description

ix, 214 pages : illustrations; cm

Summary

The map, as it appears in Gilles Deleuze's writings, is a concept guiding the exploration of new territories, no matter how abstract. With the advent of new media and digital technologies, contemporary artists have imagined a panoply of new spaces that put Deleuze's concept to the test. Deleuze's concept of the map bridges the gap between the analog and the digital, information and representation, virtual and actual, canvas and screen and is therefore best suited for the contemporary artistic landscape. Deleuze and the Map-Image explores cartography from philosophical and aesthetic perspectives and argues that the concept of the map is a critical touchstone for contemporary multidisciplinary art. This book is an overview of Deleuze's cartographic thought read through the theories of Sloterdijk, Heidegger, and Virilio and the art criticism of Laura U. Marks, Carolyn L. Kane, and Alexander Galloway, shaping it into a critical tool through which to view the works of cutting edge artists such as Janice Kerbel and Hajra Waheed, who work with digital and analog art. After all, Deleuze did write that a map can be conceived as a work of art, and so herein art is critiqued through cartographic strategies. --

Subject

• Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
• Geographic information systems
• Cartography > Technological innovations
• Cartography > Technique
• Aesthetics
• Cartography
• Computer art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Map as Fluctuating Image -- Deleuze's Vermeer -- Maps, Art, and Information -- Map and Code in A Thousand Plateaus: Savard, Lagrange Paquet, and Data Art -- Celluloid Film as Digital Art: Translation, Information, and Intermediality in Cory Arcangel -- Virtual Images of Swarms and Grids: John F. Simon Jr.'s Posthuman Aesthetics -- The Island/Image Apparatus: Virtual Networks in Kerbel, Bartholl, and Scott -- Surveilling Aesthetics: Waheed's Overhead Images and Farocki's Operative Image -- Conclusion: Tracing on the map.

Call Number

JFE 20-1774

ISBN

• 9781501346781
• 1501346784

LCCN

2019285529

OCLC

1090435503

Author

Zdebik, Jakub, author.

Title

Deleuze and the map-image : aesthetics, information, code, and digital art / Jakub Zdebik.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.

Copyright Date

© 2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1774