Memory and Intermediality in Artists’ Moving Image
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Beschreibung
This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary artists’ moving image installations. It situates artists’ moving image in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid intermedial combinations of analogue film, video and digital video emerge from mid 1990s onwards. While film has always been closely associated with the process of memory, this book investigates new models of memory in artists’ remediation of film with video and other intermedial aesthetics. Beginning with a chapter on the theorization of memory and the moving image and the diverse genealogies of artists’ film and video, the following chapters identify five different mnemonic modes in artists’ moving image: critical nostalgia, database narrative, the ‘echo-chamber’, documentary fiction and mediatized memories. Stan Douglas, Steve McQueen, Runa Islam, Mark Leckey and Elizabeth Price are of a generation that has lived through the transition from analogue to digital. Their emphasis on the nuances of intermediality indicates the extent to which we remember through media.
Contributes an original reading of artists moving image in the context of intermediality and memory studies Situates the exponential increase in artists’ moving image in relation to the transitional moment in the mid 1990s when the centenary of cinema coincides with the impact of digitalization Argues that the transitional intermedial aesthetics of contemporary artists’ moving image have reconfigured the diverse and dissociated traditions of artists’ film, video art and experimental film
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Sarah Durcan
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Artists’ moving image film/media aesthetics intermediality screen culture post-digital memory
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“Memory and Intermediality in Artists’ Moving Image theorises memory as a central and sustained concern for contemporary artists working with film, video and newer media since the early 1990s. In this important contribution to the literature on memory in contemporary art, Durcan presents richly detailed readings of significant artworks that collectively illuminate radical changes in the lived experience of memory. Integrating insights from memory studies, media theory, philosophy and art criticism, she provides a lucid and highly accessible introduction to concepts of amnesia, nostalgia, truth and post-truth in artists’ moving image, engaging with both the history and ongoing transformation of media technologies.” (Maeve Connolly, Director, ARC Masters Programme, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin)
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