WWWUNDERKAMMER

Wwwunderkammer, Carla Gannis. 2023. Paperback. 9 x 11, 104 pages. Full color. Edited with an introduction in five parts by Clark Buckner. Designed by Roxy Zeiher. With contributions by Charlotte Kent, Leah Roh, Regina Harsanyi, and Regine Gilbert. and additional writing by Bruce Sterling, Charlotte Kent, and Natasha Chuk. Telematic Media Arts. 978-0-9907934-3-4. $40.00

Carla Gannis' Wwwunderkammer Project in book form!  In her Wwwunderkammer, New York artist Carla Gannis appeals to the 16th-Century cabinet of curiosities to mine the complication of grounded reality and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science-fiction in contemporary digital culture and society. Her work highlights these complications as evidence of an underdetermination in their being, ripe with potential for creative intervention. Indeed, she sees them—in a cyborg-eco-feminist vein—as fonts of new hybrid forms of life, complicating the boundaries between the human, the natural, and the technological. She conjures postmodern avatars of a radically pluralistic future, playing with the fluid multiplicity of identity amidst these manifold layers of being, and building virtual worlds based on de-colonizing, post-humanist, and feminist archives.