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Weeb Theory
WEEB THEORY is a resource for artists encountering the dreamworlds of Japanese anime, video games, and comic books. It is also, however, a book about the broader conditions of animation and animacy, exploring the relationship between “life” and “image” in a hyper-mediated techno-political milieu.
Edited by writer Jamie Sutcliffe and artist Petra Szemán, and featuring newly commissioned essays, artists’ texts, and interviews with leading practitioners and theorists in the fields of media, philosophy, and anthropology, WEEB THEORY asks:
What does it mean to share our world so intimately with cartoons?
What kinds of life are made possible by the emergent vitalities of the animatic condition?
How might new considerations of empathy, queer desire, or communal responsibility emerge from our production of, or interaction with, animated entities?
Edited by writer Jamie Sutcliffe and artist Petra Szemán, and featuring newly commissioned essays, artists’ texts, and interviews with leading practitioners and theorists in the fields of media, philosophy, and anthropology, WEEB THEORY asks:
What does it mean to share our world so intimately with cartoons?
What kinds of life are made possible by the emergent vitalities of the animatic condition?
How might new considerations of empathy, queer desire, or communal responsibility emerge from our production of, or interaction with, animated entities?
262 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2023
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About the author
Jamie Sutcliffe
5 books1 followerJamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, lecturer, and co-director of Strange Attractor Press.
His work explores artistic encounters with science fictive fabulation, the politics of gaming, animation and its multiple entanglements with developments in the life sciences, haunted media, and the persistence of myth, all understood as technologies of selfhood.
He is the editor of Documents Of Contemporary Art: Magic, published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press.
WEEB THEORY, a collection of theoretical resources for artists encountering the intermedial fan cultures of anime, co-edited with artist Petra Szemán and published by Banner Repeater.
And Strange Attractor Journal 5, co-edited with Mark Pilkington, published by Strange Attractor Press.
His essays, reviews, and interviews have been published by Art Monthly, Frieze, The White Review, Rhizome, Art Review, The Quietus, Art Agenda, EROS Journal, Bricks From The Kiln, and IsThisIt, amongst others, while catalogue essays and exhibition texts have been written for the New Museum, New York, Goldsmiths CCA, London, the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, Primary, Nottingham, Huddersfield Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester alongside other venues.
He has been a Visiting Lecturer at The Royal College of Art, New York University, Goldsmiths, The Rijksakademie, Camberwell College of Art, Birmingham School of Art, Sheffield School of Art, Nordland Kunst-Og Filmhøgskole, and is currently Associate Lecturer at UAL: Chelsea College of Art and Associate Lecturer in Critical Theory at the University of Northampton.
His curatorial projects include The Psychopathic Now! at Flat Time House, London, The Shadow Moses Incident at Primary, Nottingham, and Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus, an exhibition exploring the clandestine politics of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid series at Southwark Park Galleries, London. The Advantages Of Being Boneless And Incomplete, co-curated with Petra Szemán, opened at Banner Repeater London, in January 2023.
He has presented talks, chaired symposia and performed texts at various venues including Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, The V&A, Wysing Art Centre, Jerwood Space, Somerset House, Sadie Coles HQ, Camden Art Centre, The Photographer’s Gallery, Focal Point, IMT Gallery, Site Gallery, The Tetley, Bosse & Baum, Tyneside Cinema and Humber Street Gallery, and been a regular contributor to the Art Monthly Talk Show on Resonance FM.
His work explores artistic encounters with science fictive fabulation, the politics of gaming, animation and its multiple entanglements with developments in the life sciences, haunted media, and the persistence of myth, all understood as technologies of selfhood.
He is the editor of Documents Of Contemporary Art: Magic, published by The Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press.
WEEB THEORY, a collection of theoretical resources for artists encountering the intermedial fan cultures of anime, co-edited with artist Petra Szemán and published by Banner Repeater.
And Strange Attractor Journal 5, co-edited with Mark Pilkington, published by Strange Attractor Press.
His essays, reviews, and interviews have been published by Art Monthly, Frieze, The White Review, Rhizome, Art Review, The Quietus, Art Agenda, EROS Journal, Bricks From The Kiln, and IsThisIt, amongst others, while catalogue essays and exhibition texts have been written for the New Museum, New York, Goldsmiths CCA, London, the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, Primary, Nottingham, Huddersfield Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester alongside other venues.
He has been a Visiting Lecturer at The Royal College of Art, New York University, Goldsmiths, The Rijksakademie, Camberwell College of Art, Birmingham School of Art, Sheffield School of Art, Nordland Kunst-Og Filmhøgskole, and is currently Associate Lecturer at UAL: Chelsea College of Art and Associate Lecturer in Critical Theory at the University of Northampton.
His curatorial projects include The Psychopathic Now! at Flat Time House, London, The Shadow Moses Incident at Primary, Nottingham, and Trouble In Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus, an exhibition exploring the clandestine politics of Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear Solid series at Southwark Park Galleries, London. The Advantages Of Being Boneless And Incomplete, co-curated with Petra Szemán, opened at Banner Repeater London, in January 2023.
He has presented talks, chaired symposia and performed texts at various venues including Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, The V&A, Wysing Art Centre, Jerwood Space, Somerset House, Sadie Coles HQ, Camden Art Centre, The Photographer’s Gallery, Focal Point, IMT Gallery, Site Gallery, The Tetley, Bosse & Baum, Tyneside Cinema and Humber Street Gallery, and been a regular contributor to the Art Monthly Talk Show on Resonance FM.
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