Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction  1

1. Keys to Turing  18

2. Christian Marclay's Two Clocks  47

3. Matter, Time, and the Digital: Agnès Varda's Videos  71

4. Beyond Repetition: Victor Burgin's Loops  100

5. The Powers of the Virtual  125

6. Another World Is Virtual  161

Notes  179

Bibliography  191

Index  199

"[A] bold and far-reaching attempt to theorize the potential of the virtual.... [T]his ambitious book reveals the power of cultural production to open up new ways of thinking and new directions out of the morass of the present." — Alison Landsberg, Critical Inquiry

"[A] bold and far-reaching attempt to theorize the potential of the virtual.... [T]his ambitious book reveals the power of cultural production to open up new ways of thinking and new directions out of the morass of the present." —Alison Landsberg, Critical Inquiry

"Homay King's Virtual Memory is a fascinating and beautifully written book that explores the complex imbrication of the analog with the digital, both technologically and conceptually, and makes the case that there is no experience of technology or art that can avoid engagement with the reality of lived experience. Considering the breadth of its examples and topics, Virtual Memory should find readers not only in film and media studies, but in art history and criticism, and science and technology studies as well. An outstanding book."  — D. N. Rodowick, author of Philosophy's Artful Conversation

"Homay King is an astute observer of art, her analyses masterful and original. The book's project of redeploying the philosophical concept of the virtual toward a renewed understanding of time-based art is one of great importance for art theory and media studies, and is brought to fruition in these pages with interpretive skill and conceptual precision." — Brian Massumi, author of Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception

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