Mining the media archive essays on art, technology, and cultural resistance - Tuer, Dot (Toronto, ON YYZ Books, 2005)
Technologies -- The second nature of simulation : mirroring the organic in the virtual world of Char Davies's ephemere -- The heart of matter : the mediation of science in the art of Catherine Richards -- Threads of memory and exile : Vera Frenkel's art of artifice -- Mining the media archive : when history meets simulation in the work of Dara Birnbaum and Stan Douglas -- "The CEAC was banned in Canada" : program notes for a tragicomic opera in three acts -- The art of nation-building : constructing a cultural identity for Post-War Canada -- Is it still privileged art? : the politics of class and collaboration in the art practice of Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge -- Cultures of conquest/culture in context -- Parables of community and culture for a new world (order) -- Imaging the borderlands -- Performing memory : the art of storytelling in the work of Rebecca Belmore -- Cartographies of memory : tracing the representational legacy of Argentina's Dirty War in the work of Guillermo Kuitca -- Anatomy of an insurrection -- From the conceptual to the political : the art of political protest in Argentina -- Gateways to the earth and sky.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-210)
Keywords: Art, Canadian -- 20th century; Art, Canadian -- 21st century; Art -- Political aspects -- Canada; Art -- Political aspects -- Argentina