Mirror Affect: Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art

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From sculpture and performance to art and technology projects, video art, and installation art, Cristina Albu charts the rise of interpersonal modes of art spectatorship. She provides a historical account of mirroring processes in contemporary art and offers insight into the phenomenological and socio-political concerns that have inspired artists to stage processes of affective, perceptual, and behavioral mirroring between art viewers.

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"Teeming with insights, Mirror Affect is a long-overdue reevaluation of artworks with mirroring and reflective properties. Cristina Albu argues that the tension between the private and the public, self and other, opens up a conflicted space, but one that is necessary to construct a new, revitalized sense of the social."Colin Gardner, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Mirror Affect is a detailed and timely analysis of the materiality of contemporary installation art, disclosing how the artworks' mirror structures build intersubjectivity as the spectators experience them."Christine Ross, author of The Past is the Present; Its the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art

"Mirror Effect is an interesting reading to researchers in the joined field of art, science, and technology."Leonardo Reviews

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Cristina Albu is assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory at University of Missouri-Kansas City.