"In this moment when quarantines, lockdowns, masking, and social distancing regulations put a premium on the haptic, Timothy Murray’s book showcases the aesthetic exuberance and technical mastery of cutting-edge media artists who touch us through our screens. Tactical as well as tactile, touch, for Murray, is both active and activist-feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist. Drawing from decades of theorizing, critiquing, researching, curating, and archiving at the intersection of the digital and the performative, Murray argues for the essential significance of the improvisational turn from Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, India, Palestine, Australia, Bolivia, and Ghana to New York and far beyond. Murray introduces us to a world of media artists to embrace… if only virtually." -Gina Marchetti, author of Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema"In Technics Improvised, Timothy Murray brings together, revises, and remediates previously published essays, improvising an epistemological reading of five decades of what he terms new media art’s ‘incorporeal materiality.’ The first-person perspective Murray brings to his subject matter is invaluable: it reflects his participation-observation in the archive that he dis/assembles, his activating work against the enclosure of ‘new media’ as historical object." -Amy Sara Carroll, author of REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era"Murray uses his book to introduce artists working in digital and electronic media and traces their struggle against the government surveillance and corporate culture that control digital tools." -Cornell Chronicle
