Birkett, Richard
Donald Rodney: Autoicon
- ISBN 13:
- 9781846382574
- author:
- Birkett, Richard
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Afterall Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 96
- Dimensions:
- 20.8 x 14.8 x 1 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Criticism,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 2 working days
Description
Donald Rodney Autoicon is an illustrated examination of the artist's seminal digital media work, conceived in the mid-1990s but not completed until two years after his death in 1998. This work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of its creator, while critically challenging dominant conceptions of the self, body, and historicity. Grounded in a partial collection of medical documents that constitute biomedicine's attempts to comprehensively "know" and maintain Rodney's body during his lifelong experience of sickle-cell anaemia, Autoicon pursues the artist's address of the British social and institutional body's cellular composition through racialized, biopolitical power. The work consists of a Java-based AI and neural network that engages the user in text-based conversation, providing responses drawn from a dense body of data points related to Rodney and his work. In this One Work edition, curator Richard Birkett traces the distinct contemporary presence of Autoicon, exploring the ideas and relations that emerged around its conception before and after Rodney's death.
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