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40yearsvideoart.de es un proyecto de restauración y exposición de obras audiovisuales que recorre la historia del videoarte en Alemania desde 1963 a la actualidad. Incluye obras emblemáticas, como la película de Wolf Vostell "Sun in your head" (1963), conservada en el Archivo Vostell de Malpartida (Cáceres) y el vídeo "Malerei Deckt Zu-Kunst deckt auf" (1977) de Richard Kriesche, la mítica "Good Morning Mr. Orwell" de Nam June Paik, la primera performance simultánea y participativa vía satélite."Este trabajo quiere destacar la importancia y el impacto del "media art" en el patrimonio cultural alemán, así como la necesidad de estudiar los procesos de degeneración de los soportes vinculados a las nuevas tecnologías, para poner a punto medidas de conservación eficaces", afirma Frieling, impulsor del proyecto.
Since the late 1980s, critical geopolitics has gone from being a radical critical perspective on the disciplines of political geography and international relations theory to becoming a recognised area of research in its own right. Influenced by poststructuralist concerns with the politics of representation, critical geopolitics considers the ways in which the use of particular discourses shape political practices. Initially critical geopolitics analysed the practical geopolitical language of the elites and intellectuals of statecraft. Subsequent iterations have considered the role that popular representations of the international political world play. As critical geopolitics has become a mor...
In Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome Kaspar Thormod examines how visions of Rome manifest themselves in artworks produced by international artists who have stayed at the city’s foreign academies. Structured as an alternative guide to Rome, the book represents an interdisciplinary approach to creating a dynamic visual history that brings into view facets of the city’s diverse contemporary character. Thormod demonstrates that when artists successfully reconfigure Rome they provide us with visions that, being anchored in a present, undermine the connotations of permanence and immovability that cling to the ‘Eternal City’ epithet. Looking at the work of these artists, the reader is invited to engage critically with the question: what is Rome today? – or perhaps better: what can Rome be?
Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics presents an innovative look at the Russian avant-garde and its cultural encounters with the sciences in the 1920s. The book examines some of the lesser known entanglements between architects, filmmakers and philosophers, on the one hand, and experimental psychologists and physiologists on the other. In Russia, famous avant-garde artists, such as El Lissitzky, Vassily Kandinsky and Dziga Vertov, helped propagate a movement referred to as "psychotechnics" that was emerging at the time in Germany and the United States and eventually led to a "psychotechnical boom." At the end of the story told in the book, it becomes clear that this boom continues to the present d...
German curator Peter Friese has been intrigued by his country's ability to atone for some of the crimes of the Nazi era while other atrocities remain buried in the national subconcious. To explore the idea of the transformability of memory, Friese selected 12 diverse contemporary artists from various countries-each of whom had at some time produced art reflecting on the Holocaust-to elaborate on the role of art in exploring such layered and complex issues. Included are noted artists Christian Boltanski, General Idea, Shimon Attie and Jochen Gerz, among others, and eight in-depth essays. A thought-provoking exhibition catalog.
The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian Formalism, the term ‘literariness’ was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature—and art in general—as a way of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of everyday life. The transformative power of ‘literariness’ is made manifest in many media artworks by renowned artists such as Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, and Lawrence Weiner. The authors use literariness as a tool to analyze the aesthetics of spoken or written language within experimental film, video performance, moving image installations, and other media-based art forms. This volume uses as its foundation the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, with the goal of extending these theories to include contemporary concepts in film and media studies, such as Neoformalism, intermediality, remediation, and postdrama.
"... Features over fifty early and largely unknown German videos by and with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Valeska Gert, and Klaus Rinke. It offers an illustrated history of video techniques and features discussions on modern restoration practices. In addition, texts by experts--artists, curators, art theorists, and media scholars--as well as a comprehensive annotated bibliography provide profound insight into one of the most influential genres in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art." --publisher.
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