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Edward Colless

Edward Colless is a Senior lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Tasmania.

Edward Colless reviews 'Parallax: Essays on Art, Culture and Technology' by Darren Tofts

April 2000, no. 219 01 April 2000
Edward Colless reviews 'Parallax: Essays on Art, Culture and Technology' by Darren Tofts
Cultural criticism at the end of the twentieth century, says Darren Tofts (at the end of 1999), is suffering from a kind of amnesia. Interactivity is not an invention of Playstation games or electronic mail, but has been a crucial constituent of avant-garde art throughout the century: neglect this history and risk collapsing culture into fin-de-siecle, commodified monotony. Both those who rhapsodi ... (read more)