Frankenstein Reanimated

Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century

https://www.neme.org/blog/frankenstein-reanimated

Marc Garrett, Yiannis Colakides (Eds.)
Publisher: Torque Editions

Contributors: Alexia Achilleos, Zach Blas, Frances A. Chiu, Ami Clarke, Régine Debatty, Mary Flanagan, Carla Gannis, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Srecko Horvat, Salvatore Iaconesi, Olga Kopenkina, Marinos Koutsomichalis, Shu Lea Cheang, Gretta Louw, Joana Moll, Laura Netz, Eryk Salvaggio, Devon Schiller, Guido Segni, Gregory Sholette, Karolina Sobecka, Alan Sondheim, Michael Szpakowski, Eugenio Tisselli, Ruben Verwaal, Paul Vanouse.

Frankenstein Reanimated is a book for our strange times. Bang-up to date it includes essays and artworks that engage with the Covid-19 pandemic, through to weird new imaginings of human-machine hybrids. A striking cover with flaps displays a triptych by artist Carla Gannis, a bespoke narrow format, and over 100 illustrations inside make this an attractive book for a wide range of audiences. The book includes full-colour illustrations and is designed by Mark Simmonds, who has designed previous Torque Editions publications and books for Tate Liverpool and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Mary Shelley’s classic gothic horror and science fiction novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has inspired millions since it was published in 1818. Today, we are witness to many different horrors and phantoms of our own creation. Chronic wealth and health inequalities, climate change, democratic collapse, and the spectre of the nuclear apocalypse are among the diffuse, monstrous products of our “advanced” technological moment. Frankenstein Reanimated presents a dynamic collection of artworks, essays, and conversations, addressing surveillance, biohacking, viruses, colonialism, digital culture, and more. It retraces and contextualises three international art exhibitions exploring themes within Frankenstein, and speculates on what Mary Shelley would think about the world today. Collectively, the book offers a lens through which to look at our current situation, and how art practices shape, and are shaped by, contemporary society.

Endorsements:

“This collection shines a light on artists as critically engaged citizens providing a kaleidoscopic view of our unevenly distributed future. These are the Frankensteins we need!” — Felix Stalder, Zurich, University of the Arts.

“Frankenstein Reanimated is an important record of some incredible artists working today, who both dismantle and rebuild our contemporary technological systems, profoundly reimagining everything from facial recognition to AI, 3D printing to virtual gaming environments.” — Sarah Cook, University of Glasgow.

The book will be launched at events, book outlets, art spaces and galleries in Germany, Spain, Cyprus, Switzerland and the UK, and other places still to be confirmed.

Published by Torque Editions
Distributors – Turnaround (UK) / Motto (DE)
Designer: Mark Simmonds

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Table of Contents

  1. Preface: The Perfect Storm. Yiannis Colakides
  2. Introduction: Frankenstein in the 21st Century. Marc Garrett
  3. Radicalism, Reform, and the Relevance of Frankenstein. Frances A. Chiu
  4. Frankenstein in the Time of Covid-19. Gregory Sholette and Olga Kopenkina interviewed by Yiannis Colakides and Marc Garrett
  5. On the Basis of Face: The Politics and Practices of Biometric Art. Devon Schiller
  6. Grace [Help Me Know the Truth. Mary Flanagan in conversation with Marc Garrett
  7. Medusa FPS, the Game that Subverts the Logic and Goals of the FPS Genre. Karolina Sobecka interviewed by Régine Debatty
  8. Learning with the Machine. Alexia Achilleos interviewed by Yiannis Colakides
  9. They Learn Like Small Children. Gretta Louw interviewed by Marc Garrett
  10. Society has Become the Biggest Panopticon. Shu Lea Cheang interviewed by Zach Blas
  11. Ongoing Investigations. Marinos Koutsomichalis interviewed by Yiannis Colakides
  12. Watching the Watchers. Joana Moll interviewed by Marc Garrett
  13. A Quiet Desert Failure. Gretta Louw
  14. Amplified. Lynn Hershman Leeson interviewed by G. Roger Denson
  15. Nothing to See Here, or: The Generated Poetry of Image Classification Tools Describing Coronavirus Stock Photography. Eryk Salvaggio
  16. La Cura: An Open Source Cure. Salvatore Iaconesi interviewed by Patrick Lichty
  17. Community Memory Through Appropriated Media. Eugenio Tisselli interviewed by Marc Garrett
  18. The Underlying Ami Clarke in conversation with Laura Netz.
  19. Virtuality and Biological Reality. Carla Gannis interviewed by Marc Garrett.
  20. A Journey in Edgespaces. Alan Sondheim interviewed by Michael Szpakowski
  21. Deep Sameness. Paul Vanouse interviewed by Yiannis Colakides
  22. Contagious! Visiting an Exhibition on Epidemic Diseases. Ruben Verwaal
  23. The Verge of the Abyss. Srecko Horvat in conversation with Yiannis Colakides and Marc Garrett
  24. Postscript (Let’s change this together). Marc Garrett and Yiannis Colakides
  25. Biographies
  26. Index
  27. Acknowledgements
 
 
 
 
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