Zach Blas : unknown ideals

Publication/Creation:

Oldenburg : Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst ; London : Sternberg Press, [2021]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Zach Blas : unknown ideals / edited by Edit Molnár and Marcel Schwierin ; contributions by Zach Blas [and nine others].

Related/Included Titles:

Unknown ideals /
Two languages of eclipse /
Fag Face /
Punk pasts, dildo futures /
Jubilee 2033: the screenplay /
Generic mannequin gets fucked /
Fucking with the human outline: notes on Zach Blas's SANCTUM /
Elf's predictions I /
It is decidedly so: Icosahedron's oracular intelligence in the post-futurist age /
Elf's predictions II /
When the Lizard King met the Lizard Brain: the Doors /
The Doors: five poems /
Toward the Valley of No Return: an interview with Zach Blas /
Tay's dream (A nightmare): an excerpt from im here to learn so /
Deutsche Übersetzungen.

Variant Titles:

Unknown ideals

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Molnár, Edit, editor and contributor
Schwierin, Marcel, 1965-, editor and contributor
Blas, Zach, artist and interviewee
Durmuşoǧlu, Övul Ö, interviewer
Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, host institution and issuing body

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Blas, Zach--Exhibitions
Blas, Zach--Interviews
Video installations (Art)--Exhibitions

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Edit Molnár and Marcel Schwierin -- Unknown ideals / Zach Blas -- Two languages of eclipse / Alexander R. Galloway -- Fag Face / Zach Blas -- Punk pasts, dildo futures / Marc Siegel -- Jubilee 2033: the screenplay / Zach Blas -- Generic mannequin gets fucked / Zach Blas -- Fucking with the human outline: notes on Zach Blas's SANCTUM / Mahan Moalemi -- Elf's predictions I / Zach Blas -- It is decidedly so: Icosahedron's oracular intelligence in the post-futurist age / Kris Paulsen -- Elf's predictions II / Zach Blas -- When the Lizard King met the Lizard Brain: the Doors / Pamela M. Lee -- The Doors: five poems / Zach Blas -- Toward the Valley of No Return: an interview with Zach Blas / Övul Ö. Durmuşoǧlu -- Tay's dream (A nightmare): an excerpt from im here to learn so / Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman -- Deutsche Übersetzungen.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

"This publication offers an inquiry into Zach Blas's singular practice through a series of newly commissioned essays by Alexander R. Galloway, Pamela M. Lee, Mahan Moalemi, Kris Paulsen, and Marc Siegel; an interview with Zach Blas by Övül Durmuşoğlu; and writings by the artist himself. These insightful contributions expand on the technological, queer, filmic, and cultural inquiries that comprise the rich world of Blas's practice, exemplary among his generation of digital artists. Across his works, Blas closely engages the materiality of digital technologies while also drawing out the philosophies and imaginaries lurking in artificial intelligence, the internet, predictive policing, airport security, biometric recognition, and biological warfare. Blas embraces the media of computation, video, sculpture, and music in his installations, which confront biometric surveillance, the cult of optimization, and the reification of data bodies. Blas uses research-based practices to scrutinize the relationship between digital technologies and the cultures and politics that animate them. Critical of today's corporate internet giants and their ideological fascination with Ayn Rand, Blas extensively considers the beliefs, desires, fantasies, histories, and symbols latent in technical systems as he dwells on the horizons and edges, or what he calls the "outside," of dominant power structures. Reclaiming Rand's phrase the "unknown ideal," Blas points to both the liberatory potentialities and political challenges of the present: he imagines a proliferation of "unknown ideals" in order to dispute Rand's vision of the future. Refusing technological determinism, Blas's work makes space for escape through its celebration of queer ideality"--Artist's website.

Language:

English
German

Language Note:

Text in English and German.

Physical Type/Description:

372 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm

General Note:

Catalog of an exhibition held at Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany, October 24, 2019-January 5, 2020.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937656694002486

ISBN:

3956795881
9783956795886

OCLC Number:

1285051464

Barcode:

010003534123