My essay “Art—Media—Manipulation” appears in the September 2021 issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, published by MIT Press. It surveys the historical precedents of multimedia and how the 1960s NYC’s downtown avant-garde art and performance scenes’ mixing of media pioneered the interactive virtuality of our digital world.

“The artist Kenneth King provides a far-reaching history of media and technological developments from the 1960s on up to today, resulting in what he calls 'cyberthesia.' He plots out developments across the arts and humanities and sciences in a much-needed historical view of how we got here, speculating on what the proliferation of platforms, streaming, and social media after a year of lockdown will produce as post-pandemic art.” (Bonnie Marranca, Editor, PAJ)

Here’s a PDF link of the essay: https://direct.mit.edu/pajj/issue/43/3%20(129)

Copies of PAJ are available at some bookstores and at https://direct.mit.edu/pajj.