Forthcoming in Discourse.
This article examines media
practices that open encounters with the material as a critical intervention
into the virtual condition. It addresses Krzysztof Wodiczko’s
site-specific large-scale image projections as an example of this type of media
practice. Wodiczko’s work has been characterized as “interrogative,” that
is, critical of social and political problems associated with site.
Building upon discussions of site specificity in art, this article
contends that his projections are an interrogative address of materiality and
ends with general conclusions about the potential for media practices, like
Wodiczko’s, to rupture the virtual.
