META

Two thousand years ago, Ovid asked his readers to imagine metamorphoses in which men and women became flowers and beasts. Today, bef ore our cinema-savvy eyes, people melt and re-form as altogether new creatures: they morph. This volume explores what digital morphi ng means -- both as a cultural practice specific to our times and as a link to a much broader history of images of human transformat ion. Meta-Morphing ranges over topics that include turn-of-the-century quick-change artists, Mesoamerican shamanic transformation, a nd cosme...[Read more]