Online lives: introduction.

From: Biography | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Throughout The Pain Journal, an account of the year prior to his death from cystic fibrosis on January 6, 1996, the writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan reflects on his intimate and sometimes turbulent relationship with the computers on which he composes his diary. For Flanagan, whose brutally direct art employs a range of recording and display devices to explore the aesthetics of the suffering body, the computer occupies a middle position between companion and tool, a switch-point linking his work as artist and diarist to his family, his circle of devoted friends, his ...

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