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>