Donald Rodney

An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney’s seminal digital media work Autoicon (1997–2000). Donald Rodney's Autoicon , a work originally produced as both a website and CD-ROM, was conceived by the artist in the mid-1990s but not completed until two years after his death in 1998. Referencing Jeremy Bentham’s infamous nineteenth-century "Auto-Icon," the work proposes an extension of the personhood and presence of Rodney, while critically challenging dominant conceptions of the self, the body, a