Facing Forward Art and Theory from a Future Perspective |
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| Editor:
| Lindner, Christoph
Schavemaker, Margriet
Folkerts, Hendrik |
| ISBN: | 978-90-8964-799-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.50 |
Book Description:
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Contemporary visual culture is inundated with a kaleidoscope of futuristic utopias and dystopias in which the longing for a seamless interface between the virtual and the real, as well as the desire for release from the constrictions of time and space, are recurrent themes. Based on speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments, a pervasive visual rhetoric of acceleration and progression, as well as damnation and destruction, shapes our sense of the future....
More DescriptionContemporary visual culture is inundated with a kaleidoscope of futuristic utopias and dystopias in which the longing for a seamless interface between the virtual and the real, as well as the desire for release from the constrictions of time and space, are recurrent themes. Based on speculative predictions and creative scientific arguments, a pervasive visual rhetoric of acceleration and progression, as well as damnation and destruction, shapes our sense of the future.
Contributors to this volume include participants in the Facing Forward Project of 2011-12, which started as a collaboration between the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, De Appel arts centre, W139 - Space for Contemporary Art, and the art magazine Metropolis M.