Frankenstein Reanimated explores the monstrous products of our ‘advanced’ technological moment through the lens of contemporary art practice. Join co-editor, Marc Garrett for an introduction to the book. This will be followed by a series of provocations from contributing and featured artists Mary Flanagan and Anna Dumitriu, with an audience Q+A moderated by Ruth Catlow.
This collection shines a light on artists as critically engaged citizens providing a kaleidoscopic view on our unevenly distributed future. These are the Frankensteins we need!
Felix Stalder, Zurich University of the Arts
About Frankenstein Reanimated
Mary Shelley’s classic gothic horror and science fiction novel Frankenstein 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 nuclear apocalypse are among the diffuse, monstrous products of our “advanced” technological moment.
Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century, edited by Marc Garrett and Yiannis Colakides, retraces and contextualises three international art exhibitions exploring themes within Frankenstein, and speculates on what Mary Shelley would think about the world today. The book offers a lens through which to look at our current situation, and how art practices shape, and are shaped by, contemporary society.
Frankenstein Reanimated presents a dynamic collection of artworks, essays, and conversations, addressing surveillance, biohacking, viruses, colonialism, digital culture, and more leading thinkers, artists and technologists, including: Alexia Achilleos, Zach Blas, Frances A. Chiu, Ami Clarke, Régine Debatty, Mary Flanagan, Carla Gannis, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Patrick Lichty, 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, the book (RRP £15), includes full-colour illustrations and is designed by Mark Simmonds. It follows Furtherfield and Torque Editions ground-breaking book Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain. Further information on the publication is available on Torque Editions site here.
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