Jim Brown reviewed Donald Rodney by Richard Birkett
Detailed look at a work of Digital Art
In the 1990s, British Artist Donald Rodney worked with collaborators to make Autoicon, a digital work distributed on CD-ROM (there was a web version as well) that "simulate[d] they physical presence and elements of the creative personality" of Rodney. Rodney died of complications from sickle-cell anaemia in 1998, and the piece was published in 2000. The audience interacted with the piece through a chatbot interface, and answers were drawn from Rodney's archive of work.
The book describes this work but also provides broader context for Rodney's work and for the artist collectives he worked with, including Blk Art and others.