Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Precarious Visualities of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture 3
5. “Am I Still in the Picture?”: The Unsettling of Identification
6. Self-Portraits 21
7. Ending Myths and the Catholic Outing of Andy Warhol 100
8. The Persistence of Spectatorship: The Racialized and Ethnicized Gaze 120
9. “Are We Still in the Game?”: David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ 136
10. Interfaces of (In)Visibility
11. What the Body Remembers: Rebecca Belmore’s Memorial to Missing Women 155
12. The Threshold of an Interface: Ilya Kabakov’s Looking up, Reading the Words (1997) 180
13. The Star and the Prisoner: The Spectacle and Surveillance of the Self on the Web 198
14. The Staging of Hallucination (of Hallucination)
15. Hallucination as Ideology in Cinema 229
16. Para-Siting Visuality
17. Media Image, Public Space, and the Body: Around Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Alien Staff 249
18. Mediating Place-Identity: Notes on Mathias Woo’s A Very Good City 264
19. The Polysensorialized Screen
20. Janine Antoni’s Lick and Lather: Eroticism as Identity Subversion 283
21. Televisual Flesh: The Body, the Screen, the Subject 302
22. Real Time, Lived Time: ar Art, Perception, and the Possibility of the Event 328
23. The Generating Image
24. The Descent of the Image 355
25. Resemblance and Identification: The Paradox of Gary Schneider’s Genetic Self-Portrait 380
26. Variations on Genetic Insignificant: Metaphors of the (Non)Code 391
27. Author Bios 417
28. Index 421