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

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Phaedra Shanbaum (Coventry University, UK.)

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

Phaedra Shanbaum (Coventry University, UK.)

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Routledge
29 November 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; Performance art; Electronic, holographic & video art; Media studies; Disability: social aspects

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

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 utopian and dystopian ideas and desires that have shaped, and continue to shape, what it means to be human. The book’s main argument is that agency and subjectivity are not universal attributes; rather they are socio-material entanglements and contextually bound enactments that are strategically negotiated by the subject. Thus, they involve conflict, struggle, and other forms of resistance.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, media and cultural studies, disability studies, and gender studies.

By: Phaedra Shanbaum (Coventry University UK.)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9780367755430
ISBN 10: 0367755432
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 29 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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