Simulation, Exercise, Operations

Simulation, Exercise, Operations Robin Mackay (Ed.) Published by UrbanomicApril 2015Paperback 148x210mm, 150 pp.ISBN 978-0-9930458-6-8    Documenting and expanding a ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION hosted by Urbanomic in 2012, and published to coincide with the exhibition Exerciseat KUNSTHALLE DARMSTADT (April 26 to October 11, 2015), this volume uses the work of artist John Gerrard as the locus for a set of wide-ranging interventions and discussions on the status of the moving image in an age of advanced simulation. In Simulations (1983), Jean Baudrillard proposed that we had entered into a 'third era of the simulacrum': No longer the Renaissance paradigm in which the simulacrum was understood as a counterfeit version of the real; nor the Industrial paradigm, whose endless series of simulacra threatened the original with redundancy; but the age of the model or simulation, as a simulacra that precedes the real, and ultimately renders the distinction between real and simulation untenable. This