Ring, Annie;
(2025)
The Material Impact of 'the Digital' in Counter-Archival Video Works by Hito Steyerl and Brenda Lien.
In: Ring, Annie and Bollington, Lucy, (eds.)
Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture.
(pp. 133-154).
Legenda: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
In response to the ubiquity and purported immateriality of Internet cultures, contemporary screen artists Hito Steyerl and Brenda Lien have both deployed aesthetic strategies aimed at a new defamiliarisation, to reveal and explore the material impacts of new technologies. Repurposing some of the most familiar content and interfaces of the contemporary Internet, the citational screen works by these artists draw attention to the computational practices of our present day that are creating real but often hidden impacts on lives, bodies, and environments. Ring analyses video works by Steyerl and Lien in which portrayals of apparently abstract technological processes are intruded upon by surprising images of materiality.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Material Impact of 'the Digital' in Counter-Archival Video Works by Hito Steyerl and Brenda Lien |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-839542-02-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.59860/vc.c58c2cc |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.59860/vc.c58c2cc |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access chapter published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209035 |
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