Deleuze and the Map-Image

Aesthetics, Information, Code, and Digital Art

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Deleuze and the Map-Image

Aesthetics, Information, Code, and Digital Art

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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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

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

Conclusion: Tracing on the Map
Notes
Index

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Published Apr 18 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 224
ISBN 9781350436930
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations 21 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Jakub Zdebik

Jakub Zdebik received his PhD from the Center for…

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