The Event of Art

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dc.contributor.authorLafia, Marc
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-31T13:10:13Z
dc.date.available2024-07-31T13:10:13Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-03
dc.date.updated2024-07-31T13:10:12Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractThe Event of Art presents, in fifty-two modular chapters and over eight hundred pages and images, the works of artist Marc Lafia. The book interweaves essays, notes, photographic archives, and a host of exhibitions wherein Lafia traverses his wide body of work and examines how his early strategies of cultural reading of photography and film, of interface, network culture, and social media, transform into an investigation of materiality itself. If his interest was once the way media becomes the message, his interest later becomes the realm of the sensible and the sensate in themselves. Here he presents art as the medium itself, giving us wide permission to explore and examine our deepest feelings and senses, our world and its becoming. The book is introduced by two essays. The first is by curator and art dealer Mathieu Borysevicz, where he recounts meeting Lafia at his first artist residency, and the many projects they would go on to do together. He introduces Lafia’s interest in recording as it becomes digital and computational where "recording is not only memory, and a data structure, but a permutational instrument and ever-changing horizon of iterations.” The other introductory essay is by critic Daniel Coffeen, who writes, "while Lafia may not have a traditional medium – there is no such thing anymore – he does in fact have one consistent medium: imaging making itself, its apparati of creation, consumption, and circulation. In fact Lafia’s medium is the discourse of art – what it is, how it comes to be, how we experience it.” The Event of Art presents the work of art as a complex material and societal event. The event is multiple, a continual becoming of perception, being, materiality, participation, a coming to the senses and the making, shaping and opening to them, not only of one’s self, but the world becoming.
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0275.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781953035363
dc.identifier.isbn9781950192984
dc.identifier.otherb6c3d0ad-493e-4aec-8bc3-56f4db4d9346
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/753
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectAGC
dc.subjectART006000
dc.subjectAlgorithms
dc.subjectArchives
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence
dc.subjectCinema
dc.subjectComputer Networks
dc.subjectContemporary Art
dc.subjectCultural Histories
dc.subjectCultural Studies
dc.subjectFeminist Theory
dc.subjectIdentity (Culture)
dc.subjectImage
dc.subjectInformation Systems
dc.subjectInstallation Art
dc.subjectMedia Studies
dc.subjectPerformance. Film Theory
dc.subjectPhotography
dc.subjectProcessing
dc.subjectPublic Art
dc.subjectSelf and Identity
dc.subjectSocial Media
dc.subjectVisual Arts
dc.titleThe Event of Art
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
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