Abstract

This article examines self‐reflexive strategies by which contemporary media artists exploit the specific capabilities of photography, film, and interactive video to investigate the roles of memory and personal agency in urban experience. Works by Isaac Julien (British, b. 1960), Matthew Buckingham (American, b. 1963), and Matthew Ritchie (British, b. 1964) utilize a range of aesthetic and technological approaches to mine imagery of real and imagined cities, in ways that foreground the subjectivity of the viewer.

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