The Accident of Art
By: Sylvère Lotringer and Paul Virilio.
Contributors: Virilio, Paul.
Series: Semiotext(e) foreign agents series
Publisher: Semiotext(e); Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, USA; Cambridge, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Art -- Philosophy; Art and technology
Description: Urbanist and theorist of technology, Virilio trained as a painter... In Accident of Art, his third extended conversation with Lotringer, Virilio looks back on the century in order to address for the first time the impact of technology on contemporary art. Lotringer and Virilio argue that a direct relation exists between war trauma and art. Why has art failed to reinvent itself in the face of technology, unlike performing art? Why has art simply retreated into painting and surrendered to digital technology? Accidents are inventions in their own right. The can also free us from speed-induced inertia.--Cubierta.