de-Constructing the Digital Revolution

ISBN-13: 9783838320472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 88 str.

Genco Gulan

Opis

Today information technology began to offer us new dimensions in the creation, storage and distribution of information, however "new media" has been presented to society -by the popular press- mainly as a miracle for (direct) marketing. The book "De-constructing the Digital Revolution", explores how a new popular term "digital revolution" has been emerged, transformed and vacuumed to satisfy rising demands for a new Utopia, right at the turn of the second millenium. The author Genco Gulan deconstruct the term, and bring examples with an interdisciplinary approach from; visual art, politics, popular culture, history and even genetics. Gulan tries to present how an anti-systemic term "revolution" could became systemic. The book De-constructing the Digital Revolution conclude that the developments in new technology should not only be sought regarding to its material(ist) reflections but also in its power for de-materialization. Hence a possible change (the next evolution) rather should be sought within in its own dynamics, through a new (electronic) theory.

O autorze

Genco Gulan is a new media artist & a theoretician. He studied Political Science at Bogazici University, Istanbul & Media at New School, New York. He showed his works at ZKM, Pompidou, Rio MAM, Triennale & Pera Museums. Gulan gave lectures at Yale, SVA and Koln Universities. Currently he is teaching at Bogazici, University & Mimar Sinan Academy.