ABSTRACT
Racing Cyberculture explores new media art that challenges the 'race-blind' myth of cyberspace. The particular cultural workers whose productions are addressed are the performance and installation artist Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes, the UK new media arts collective Mongrel, the conceptual artists and composer Keith Obadike, and the multimedia artist Prema Murthy. The author looks at how works by these artists bring forward questions of racial and cultural identity as they intersect with information technology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|35 pages
Re-Searching Racial Projects in the Technoculture
Mongrel's Natural Selection, the Search Engine, and the Politics of British Culture and National Identity in the 1990s
chapter 2|38 pages
Re-Playing “Racial Knowledge” and Cybercultural Subjectivity
Sifuentes's Temple of Confessions, Public Opinion Polling, and the Cultural Politics of Internet Identity Play
chapter 3|37 pages
Re-Collecting Cyberculture and Racial Indentification in a Minoritarian Frame of Reference
Keith Obadike's Blackness for Sale, eBay®, and the Counter-Performance of Blackness in Cyberspace
chapter 4|38 pages
Re-Posing Cyberporn and the Racialized Subject in Cyberculture
Prema Murthy's BindiGirl, Cyberfeminism, and the Cultural Politics of Orientalist Pornography on the Internet
