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"The Event of Art presents, in fifty-two modular chapters and over eight hundred pages and images, the works of artist Marc Lafia. The book interweaves essays, notes, photographic archives, and a host of exhibitions wherein Lafia traverses his wide body of work and examines how his early strategies of cultural reading of photography and film, of interface, network culture, and social media, transform into an investigation of materiality itself. If his interest was once the way media becomes the message, his interest later becomes the realm of the sensible and the sensate in themselves. Here he presents art as the medium itself, giving us wide permission to explore and examine our deepest feelings and senses, our world and its becoming.The book is introduced by two essays. The first is by curator and art dealer Mathieu Borysevicz, where he recounts meeting Lafia at his first artist residency, and the many projects they would go on to do together. He introduces Lafia’s interest in recording as it becomes digital and computational where ""recording is not only memory, and a data structure, but a permutational instrument and ever-changing horizon of iterations.” The other introductory essay is by critic Daniel Coffeen, who writes, ""while Lafia may not have a traditional medium – there is no such thing anymore – he does in fact have one consistent medium: imaging making itself, its apparati of creation, consumption, and circulation. In fact Lafia’s medium is the discourse of art – what it is, how it comes to be, how we experience it.”The Event of Art presents the work of art as a complex material and societal event. The event is multiple, a continual becoming of perception, being, materiality, participation, a coming to the senses and the making, shaping and opening to them, not only of one’s self, but the world becoming."

Kunst --- Photography, Contemporary Art, Public Art, Performance. Film Theory, Installation Art, Archives, Algorithms, Social Media, Cinema, Visual Arts, Artificial Intelligence, Media Studies, Image, Processing, Feminist Theory, Information Systems, Cultural Histories, Computer Networks, Identity (Culture), Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Self and Identity, Social Media

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"The Event of Art presents, in fifty-two modular chapters and over eight hundred pages and images, the works of artist Marc Lafia. The book interweaves essays, notes, photographic archives, and a host of exhibitions wherein Lafia traverses his wide body of work and examines how his early strategies of cultural reading of photography and film, of interface, network culture, and social media, transform into an investigation of materiality itself. If his interest was once the way media becomes the message, his interest later becomes the realm of the sensible and the sensate in themselves. Here he presents art as the medium itself, giving us wide permission to explore and examine our deepest feelings and senses, our world and its becoming.The book is introduced by two essays. The first is by curator and art dealer Mathieu Borysevicz, where he recounts meeting Lafia at his first artist residency, and the many projects they would go on to do together. He introduces Lafia’s interest in recording as it becomes digital and computational where ""recording is not only memory, and a data structure, but a permutational instrument and ever-changing horizon of iterations.” The other introductory essay is by critic Daniel Coffeen, who writes, ""while Lafia may not have a traditional medium – there is no such thing anymore – he does in fact have one consistent medium: imaging making itself, its apparati of creation, consumption, and circulation. In fact Lafia’s medium is the discourse of art – what it is, how it comes to be, how we experience it.”The Event of Art presents the work of art as a complex material and societal event. The event is multiple, a continual becoming of perception, being, materiality, participation, a coming to the senses and the making, shaping and opening to them, not only of one’s self, but the world becoming."

Kunst --- Photography, Contemporary Art, Public Art, Performance. Film Theory, Installation Art, Archives, Algorithms, Social Media, Cinema, Visual Arts, Artificial Intelligence, Media Studies, Image, Processing, Feminist Theory, Information Systems, Cultural Histories, Computer Networks, Identity (Culture), Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Self and Identity, Social Media --- Photography, Contemporary Art, Public Art, Performance. Film Theory, Installation Art, Archives, Algorithms, Social Media, Cinema, Visual Arts, Artificial Intelligence, Media Studies, Image, Processing, Feminist Theory, Information Systems, Cultural Histories, Computer Networks, Identity (Culture), Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Self and Identity, Social Media

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Everyday Cinema presents the films (eight features and numerous shorts, computational, and installation films) of Marc Lafia. In his many films (including Exploding Oedipus; Love and Art; Confessions of an Image; Revolution of Everyday Life; Paradise; Hi, How Are You Guest 10497; and 27) Lafia probes what it is to construct an image, to forge systems of representation, to see and represent ourselves. His work has been defined as a cinema of emergence, a cinema of the event, in which the very act of ubiquitous recording creates something new.Everyday Cinema is comprised of two parts, the first an in-depth look at his films and installations, project by project, providing background on how they came about, Lafia's process and ideas. The second part features selected interviews and over two hundred film stills wherein Lafia puts forward a new sense of the possibility of the cinema. As we all relentlessly record ourselves and are recorded, we become part of the cinematic fabric of life, part of a spectacle of which we are both constituent and constitutive. This is what Lafia sets out to capture and examine.With a Preface by Daniel Coffeen.

Lafia, Marc, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- film studies --- new media --- video --- representation --- Marc Lafia

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Image Photograph is a co-production of punctum books and the Center for Transformative Media, Parsons The New School of Design. Lafia is redefining what it means to be a photographer in an age when everyone is living on both sides of the megapixel equation. These images challenge the boundaries between public and private space, as well as personal and universal truth. ~ Douglas Rushkoff Image-photograph is the impressive tour-de-force of a mind that is equally at ease in thinking through images and in photographing through words. For that alone, this is a must-read. But he does not stop there. Like the old gold-seeker of the past, Marc Lafia excavates the world of contemporary image-making and within the rubble, the debris of our digital age, he points to the only gold nugget left for us: the image-photograph. The latter is not just the image that we see, or the image that we construct: it is the image that we are. Nothing more, but also nothing less. ~ Chiara Bottici Marc Lafia's book seeks to map a new territory, to articulate the strange and beautiful new relationships between world, technology, image, and us. ~ Daniel Coffeen We no longer live in the society of the spectacle, passively seeing the world. Now we perform our very own spectacle in a society that demands it at every turn. We've become advertisements of ourselves, our own PR agents, continually putting on a performance and measuring it hour by hour. This is no longer the society of the spectacle but the society of performance. All events have become a pretense to create the image, to orchestrate an image of images that is us. We believe the image confers on us a kind of immortality: just as the artist believes her works collected by a major museum will do the same, we believe the network will forever host the archive we build everyday. The image that is us lives in the circulation of the network. Though a file, though virtual and malleable, made out of bits and instantly accessible to anyone who wants to find it around the world, this image that lives only lives on screen, as virtual as it might be, is a material fact. In its impression, its reception, its archivability, its remixability, the electronic image is today's photograph. Image Photograph is a book about, and of, this transformation of the image. In three essays -- a foreword by critic and philosopher, Daniel Coffeen; an essay of images and text that explores the varied rhetorics of the image; and a strictly visual essay -- the book presents a traversal through photography to arrive at a new understanding of images, what Lafia calls the image-photograph. As Coffeen states, Lafia takes up the prescribed space of the photograph and, by touring the new conditions of imaging, remaps the very space of photography. Which is to say, Lafia presents and examines imaging across a breadth of moods, tropes, and contexts in order to see and engage this new technology of image-seeing and image-making -- this image-photograph -- as it exists today in our age of electronic inscription and networked culture. At once artist book and critical theory, Image Photograph takes its direction from Walter Benjamin's Arcades, John Berger's Ways of Seeing and, more recently, Hito Steyerl's The Wretched of the Screen. Throughout it, Lafia not only writes about the image but constructs images -- and, finally, performs this new space of the image-photograph.

Technology and the arts --- Photography --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Lafia, Marc, --- exhibition catalog --- photography