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Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film. Editor Gabrielle Jennings-a video artist herself-reveals as never before how works of abstract video are not merely, as the renowned curator Kirk Varnedoe once put it, "pictures of nothing," but rather amorphous, ungovernable spaces that encourage contemplation and innovation. In explorations of the work of celebrated artists such as Jeremy Blake, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Ryoji Ikeda, Takeshi Murata, Diana Thater, and Jennifer West, alongside emerging artists, this volume presents fresh and vigorous perspectives on a burgeoning and ever-changing arena of contemporary art.

Title Abstract Video : The Moving Image in Contemporary Art / Gabrielle Jennings.
Publisher Berkeley, CA : University of California Press
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
English
Content Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE: Abstract Video Art -- 1. Introduction: On the Horizon -- 2. Film Image / Electronic Image: The Construction of Abstraction, 1960- 1990 -- 3. Joseph Kosuth's The Second Investigation in Vancouver (1969): Art on TV -- 4. Abstract Transmissions: Other Trajectories for Feminist Video -- 5. Abstract Video -- 6. Visual Music's Influence on Contemporary Abstraction -- 7. Getting Messy: Chance and Glitch in Contemporary Video Art -- 8. Delirious Architectures: Notes on Jeremy Blake, Liquid Crystal Palace, and Digital Materialism -- 9. Abstract Video: net.video.abstraction -- 10. Interactive Abstractions: Between Embodied Exploration and Instrumental Control "Underneath Your Fingertips" -- 11. Real Time, Screen Time -- 12. The Spreadability of Video -- 13. Spectral Projections: Color, Race, and Abstraction in the Moving Image -- 14. Go with the (Unregulated) Flow: Fluidity, Abjection, and Abstraction -- 15. Sine Qua Son: Considering the Sine Wave Tone in Electronic Art -- MEDIOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (xx, 289 pages) : illustrations.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010718030605171
MARC RECORDS
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