TCR 2-50 contributor Laura U. Marks’s essay Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector follows important continuities in what at first may appear as disparate traditions in art history: classical Islamic art, European modernism and contemporary new media. Comparing several tendencies shared by both classical Islamic art and contemporary computer-based art, her research traces how principles of the former traveled westward, at several points from the 12th to the early 20th centuries, ultimately informing the development of European modernism.
LAURA U. MARKS, a writer and a curator of artists’ media, is the author of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media (2002). She is Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks
READ: Laura U. Marks / Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector
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