Author: West, JenniferThis debut monograph brings together nearly a decade of 'analogital' experiments in film, sculpture and installation by Jennifer West, one of the most committed artists working on the West Coast today. The 11 projects reproduced in the book fall under the heading of Media Archaeology, and reveal the historical and material promiscuity of West’s experiments in film and art, often tied to the changing geography of Los Angeles and its surrounds.Saturated in a history of avant-garde and Third World cinema (not to mention HIV/AIDS activism and the incipient Riot Grrrl movement) since she was an undergraduate at Evergreen State College, West’s work today treads similar ground: challenging the utopianism of new media adoptees as well as the nostalgia of analogue-only film adherents. ISBN 9781942185949. Radius Books. hb. 172 pages. 140 colour ills. 33 x 23 cm.available
