"After reading Laura Marks's lucid Enfoldment and Infinity, which leads us through the deep time layers of Arabic-Islamic arts and sciences, we have to give up our established concepts of media histor
Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working betwee
In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental cinema from the last twenty-five years: film and video works from the Arabi
Tracing the connections—both visual and philosophical—between new media art and classical Islamic art.In both classical Islamic art and contemporary new media art, one point can unfold to reveal an en
