[spectre] Out Now! Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture by Ana Peraica

[Ana Peraica]

Dear friends and collegues,
my book is out and available for downloading! Please forward the news to
whomever you find it may be of the use!
many thanks, Ana
.
Ana Peraica, Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary
Visual Culture
Theory on Demand #24, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/culture-of-the-selfie/

Culture of the Selfie is an in-depth art-historical overview of
self-portraiture, using a set of theories from visual studies, narratology,
media studies, psychotherapy, and political principles. Collecting
information from various fields, juxtaposing them on the historical
time-line of artworks, the book focuses on space in self-portraits, shared
between the person self-portraying and the viewer. What is the missing
information of the transparent relationship to the self and what kind of
world appears behind each selfie? As the ‘world behind one’s back’ is
gradually taking larger place in the visual field, the book dwells on a
capacity of selfies to master reality, the inter-mediate way and, in a
measure, oneself.

Ana Peraica is a curator, art critic, theorist and lecturer in visual
culture and media arts. She has curated online projects since 1998. She was
the editor of Machine Philosopher (Jan Van Eyck Akademie, 1999), Žena na
raskrižju ideologija (HULU, Split, 2007), Victims Symptom
(LabforCulture/Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2009), Smuggling
Anthologies (MMSU, Rijeka, 2015), produced after curated shows. Her essays,
published in magazines as Springerin, Documenta magazine, Pavilion, Art and
Education Papers, and readers by Afterimage, Loecker Verlaag,
P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E, were compiled in a manuscript Sub/versions (Revolver,
2009; in Croatian due 2018). Peraica is a book reviewer at Leonardo Reviews
and she teaches the Media Art Histories program at University of Danube in
Austria.
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