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

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Agency and Subjectivity Defined
	Aesthetics
	Disability
	Gender
	Overview of Chapters
	Notes
Chapter 1: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Cultures: Power, Control, Artificial Intelligence, and Algorithmic Cultures
	Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Cultures Defined
	Aesthetics, Art, and Artificial Intelligence
	The What, Who, and How of AI
	Classification as a Centralizing Power, or What Differences Make a Difference
	Who is Accountable and Responsible for What and Why: Issues of Value, Visibility, and AI
	Being Artificial
	AI as an Intelligent Device
	Objectivity, Universality, and AI
	AI and the Performance of Intelligence
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 2: Migration and Political Violence
	Migration
	Political Violence
	The Paradox of Truth: Power, Politics, and Representations of Migrationand Political Violence
	Viewing Conflict, Commodities, and Communities: Screen-BasedSpectatorship and Migration
	A Socially Significant Frontier: From Political Crisis to Cultural Process
	Art at the Borders: The Communities of Border Tuner/Sintonizador Fronterizo
	The Ethnographic Turn and Participatory Art
	The Violence of Aesthetics
	Counter Investigations: The Relationship Between Political Violenceand Aesthetics in Torture in Saydnaya Prison
	The Courtroom and the Bearer of Testimonies: The Architectural Rendering of Saydnaya
	The Judge and the Jury: The Memory Clips
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Contemporary Medical Technologies and Practices
	Contemporary Medical Technologies and Practices
	One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart
	The Cultural, Historical, Political, and Mythological Parametersof Disability and the Disabled Body
	From the Institution to the Posthuman
	One Breath: Instability, Uncertainty, Potentiality, and the Emergenceof a Provisional Self
	Defamiliarization, Rejection, Subversion, and the Demedicalization of Disability
	Performing the Invisible, Visible
	In Summary
	Notes
Chapter 4: The Anthropocene: Our Heroic Response to Adversity
	The Anthropocene
	Broadcasts from Home
	Agency, Subjectivity, and the Aesthetic Visualizations of the Anthropocene
	Multispecies Storytelling (or How We Tell Stories About Worlds)
	Covid in the UK (2020–21)
	A Pandemic in the Anthropocene (Or a Crisis within a Crisis)
	I Miss All That
	The Collective and Potentially Emancipating Spaces of Covid
	We are all in this together
	In the End…
	Notes
Conclusion
	The five existential crises of the European continent
	Notes
Bibliography
Index