In Madison Square Park in New York, and subsequently in Soho Square, the heart of London's media world, video artist Tony Oursler created a spectral audio-visual experience for an image-saturated society. Conceived as a kind of psycho-landscape, "The Influence Machine" delves deep into the history of media, rousing long-forgotten spirits and setting them to roam about both squares at night. The ghosts of the Fox Sisters, who made telegraphic contact with the spirit world in the mid-19th century, haunted alongside the ghost of television pioneer John Logie Baird. This book brings together Tony Oursler's most elaborate deep media projects in an illustrated time line, the "Timestream", and accompanying texts elaborate on the phantasmagorias of the late 18th century, its contemporary equivalents, and the influence of spiritualism within the general development of media.
Essays by Carlo McCormick and Marina Warner. Introduction by James Lingwood and Tom Eccles. Interview by Louise Neri.
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Tony Oursler was born in 1957 in upstate New York and received his BFA from the California Institute of Arts. Oursler's videos and installations have been widely exhibited internationally, including solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. He was recently the subject of a traveling retrospective that appeared at the Williams College Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Des Moines Art Center. He also has participated in the Whitney Biennial and Documenta9 and X. He currently lives and works in New York.
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