Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology, and Cultural Resistance

Mining the Media Archive gathers together an exciting collection of essays by Dot Tuer. Ranging from monographs on new media artists, to testimonial writing on cultural politics and post-colonialism in Canada and Argentina, Tuer's writings address issues of global media and local remembrance through a unique blend of storytelling, archival research and cultural analysis.

The archive becomes a dynamic montage of the past and present: a repository for the steady trickle of utopian interchanges between life and art that lies beneath the surface of the simulacrum, and a talisman against the historical amnesia of global corporate culture.-- from the Preface by Dot Tuer

Dot Tuer is a cultural theorist and historian whose writings focus on issues of political agency, memory, the body, and transculturation in contemporary new media art, performance, and photography in Canada and Latin America. She publishes widely in contemporary art magazines, journals, and anthologies and has received numerous awards for her writing on art. Tuer holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Toronto and is a Professor of Art History and Humanities at OCAD University, where she has served as the Director of the MFA program and Chair of the undergraduate program in Criticism and Curatorial Practice.