Critical Writing Index

Ecstasy of Information

by Bill Horrigan

Afterimage, Jan. 1996, v. 23, no. 4, p. 6

Bill Horrigan offers an open perspective on the consumption of information through the internet and that it is difficult to know how people will respond to this way of accessing information. Horrigan uses the example of a single website, which hosts a mass of information about the director Chris Marker, to illustrate that "what the internet gives us is a humbling vast repository of tools (figurative, graphic, discursive, consumerist) to construct a subjectivised cache of fascination" (6).

ITEM 1996.078 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Chris Marker WebsiteAdrian Miles