Donald Rodney by Richard Birkett - ISBN: 9781846382574
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Digital ghost in the machine: art, race, memory, and resistance.

Donald Rodney

Autoicon

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    96 pages

  • Release Date

    21 March 2023

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Summary

An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney’s seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997-2000).

Donald Rodney’s Autoicon, a work originally produced as both a website and CD-ROM, was conceived by the artist in the mid-1990s but not completed until two years after his death in 1998. Referencing Jeremy Bentham’s infamous nineteenth-century “Auto-Icon,” the work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of Rodney, while critically challenging dominant concepti…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781846382574
ISBN-10:1846382572
Author:Richard Birkett
Publisher:Afterall Publishing
Imprint:Afterall Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:21 March 2023
Weight:369g
Dimensions:216mm x 152mm
Series:Afterall Books / One Work
About The Author

Richard Birkett

Richard Birkett is a curator and writer based in Glasgow. He has previously held roles as Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and curator at Artists Space, New York. He has organized exhibitions at institutions including Yale Union, Portland; mumok, Vienna; MoMA PS1, New York; and the National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina. He has edited and written for publications including Cosey Complex, Bernadette Corporation- 2000 Wasted Years, and Tell it To My Heart-Collected by Julie Ault.

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