The Moving Image as Public Art
Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment
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This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments of enchantment that can renew, intensify, or challenge our everyday engagement with public space and each other. These artworks also offer frameworks for understanding how moving images operate in public space—how they move viewers and reconfigure the site of the screen. Each chapter explores a mode of address that examines how artists and curators leverage the moving image’s attentional power to engage audiences, create spaces, make place, and challenge assumptions. This book also examines the difficulties and compromises that arise when using urban screens for public art.
This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments of enchantment that can renew, intensify, or challenge our everyday engagement with public space and each other. These artworks also offer frameworks for understanding how moving images operate in public space—how they move viewers and reconfigure the site of the screen. Each chapter explores a mode of address that examines how artists and curators leverage the moving image’s attentional power to engage audiences, create spaces, make place, and challenge assumptions. This book also examines the difficulties and compromises that arise when using urban screens for public art.
Focuses on moving image-based public art that is an increasingly significant presence in cities around the world Charts the moving image’s entrance into and evolution within the field of public art through an exploration of its encounters with passersby and the situations it generates within the city Argues that these encounters are not mere distractions but can prompt shared experiences and dialogue among strangers
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Annie Dell'Aria
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Moving Image Experimental Art Public Art Urban Audience Spatial Encounters Commercial Spectacle Light Festivals Doug Aitken Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Jenny Holzer Dara Birnbaum Krzysztof Wodiczko
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“This book provides an elaborate analysis … . Dell’Aria’s book offers an important insight into the production, preservation, and reception of moving images as public art. The study is rich and well-documented, examining significant artworks and provides an important contribution to a topic … . This book is important both for scholars working in film and media studies and those in contemporary art, and would be of great use to any reader curious about moving images in public spaces.” (Natasha Nedelkova, The Garage Journal, November 30, 2021)
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“Being outdoors in shared public spaces with strangers has taken on nuanced meanings of late. It is both a liberating respite from different levels of lockdown, but also fraught with an invisible risk to our health. It is therefore prescient when so much of our lives has been increasingly confined to the digital sphere, that The Moving Image as Public Art considers how outdoor moving image artworks may reconfigure experiential encounters between strangers, spatial interaction with public space, and the fabric of cities.” - Pat Naldi, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London“Annie Dell’Aria offers a timely and illuminating taxonomy of the proliferating sites, aims, and functions of the moving image in public spaces. Moving beyond familiar critiques of spectacle and capital, Dell’Aria pays careful attention to the ways artists, institutions, and communities negotiate the complex goals and utility of art in the public sphere. In doing so, she prompts us to rethink our continually evolving relationship to the moving image.”—Gregory Zinman, author of Making Images Move: Handmade Film and the Other Arts
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