I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen

by Alison Hearst (Editor), Marla Price (Foreword), Omar Kholeif (Contributor)

Artists from Nam June Paik to Arthur Jafa show how modern digital technologies have shaped the art and themes of our time Surveying some 50 years of groundbreaking art related to digital technology and the screen, I’ll Be Your Mirror examines how technologies such as home computers, smartphones and TV have affected art and life over the past five decades. It traces a trajectory stretching back to the late 1960s, a watershed moment in the rise of the screen in the home. Today, accelerated by the pandemic, our daily life is mediated through screens for work, entertainment and sociality.
Artists include : Lillian Schwartz, Nam June Paik, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Andy Warhol, Gretchen Bender, Eva and Franco Mattes, Jacqueline Humphries, Cory Arcangel, Petra Cortright, Elias Sime, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl, Liss LaFleur, Kristin Lucas, Rick Silva, Wickerham & Lomax, Avery Singer, American Artist, Simon Denny, Skawennati, Jacolby Satterwhite, Carson Lynn, Ed Atkins, Arthur Jafa, Cao Fei and Frances Stark.

223 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2023

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

goes into depth about internet and digital art and even has a really nifty small biographies at the end of the book of every artist displayed in the book. great read and a cute coffee table book