Technologies of the Self-Portrait

<p>This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production. </p><p>Gabriella Giannachi shows how artists constructed their presence, subjectivity, and personhood, by using a range of technologies and media including mirrors, photography, sculpture, video, virtual reality and social media, to produce an increasingly fluid, multiple, and social representation of their ‘self’. </p><p>This interdisciplinary book draws from art history, performance studies, visual culture, new media theory, philosophy, computer science, and neuroscience to offer a radical new reading of the genre.</p> <p>Introduction</p><p>1. The Invention of the Self-Portrait</p><p>2. The Photographic Self-Portrait</p><p>3. Sculpting the Self</p><p>4. Video Self-Portraits</p><p>5. The Selfie</p><p>Conclusion</p>