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"Media Reflexivity
in video. Some reflections on Electronic/Visual Culture"
de Yvonne Spielmann (in english)
Yvonne Spielmann is Professor of Visual Media at the
Braunschweig School of Art, Germany, previously Assistant
Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen,
Germany. She has edited "Kunst und Politik der
Avantgarde" (1989); "Image - Media - Art"
(together with Gundolf Winter, German and English,
1999); "Special issue: What is Intermedia?",
Convergence, Winter 2002 (together with Juergen Heinrichs)
and authored "Eine Pftze in bezug aufs Mehr.
Avantgarde" (1991), and "Intermedialité
Das System Peter Greenaway" (1998). Forthcoming
is the German book "Video, the Reflexive Medium."
with Suhrkamp Press.
Residential Fellowships were granted by: The Getty
Center, Cornell University, The Rockefeller Foundation,
and The Daniel Langlois Foundation.
"Media Reflexivity in video. Some reflections
on Electronic/Visual Culture"
The lecture discusses concepts of reflexivity of the
electronic medium video in selected works of video
arts in North America and Europe. In a historical
perspective the presentation gives an overview of
some developments in the audiovisual medium of video
that contribute to and reflect on of what is understood
by "electronic culture". It can be shown
that critical and self-reflexive concerns with "new"
types of images in video works of the seventies and
eighties preceed some of the contemporary concerns
with the debatable status of the "digital image"
that has no "visual truth value".
The lecture is held in English. Excerpts of video
works will be shown.
MANIFESTATION DE LA DESTINEE NUMERIQUE —
LA VALLEE DE LA MORT ET L’INCINÉRATEUR
DES CARRIÈRES by Barry Vacker (in
english)
Barry Vacker teaches mass media and digital media
theory at Temple University in Philadelphia. Vacker
writes about utopia and dystopia in technology and
culture, and recently completed the book No Exit /
Must Exit: Existential Conditions of Digital Destiny,
for which he is seeking a publisher. He received his
doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin.
Barry Vacker may be reached at barryvacker@mac.com
Jean Baudrillard once juxtaposed Death Valley and
Las Vegas as “mental frontiers” for theorizing
the territories being generated as electronic media
permeate the architecture of the city and the structure
of society. Inspired by the poetic parallels between
Death Valley and the Des Carrieres Incinerateur, this
talk will explore the conceptual frontiers of the
natural ecology of the desert and the cultural ecology
of art and architecture. Drawing from Baudrillard
and Sartre, this talk will theorize the desert and
digitalization as existential destinies for being
and nothingness in the information age.
Argentine video today by Graciela Taquini
(in english)
The video scene in Argentina today is strongly marked
by a tendency toward testimonials that corresponds
as much to an attitude of political correctness as
it does to caustic irony. These works evidence recent
historical events in Argentina, but they do so metaphorically,
without overstating the obvious. The panorama presents
a strong experimental current, where genres are mixed
or slide between one and the other, with a large degree
of human action and a strong performance element,
much more so than abstraction or formal exercises.
Even the animations reveal much more than simple design.
The very knowledge of the medium is questioned from
the inside.
Urban Desert
by Luna Nera
Luna Nera is an international group of artists based
in London, creating site-responsive installation and
media art.
Waste space, junk ground, derelict ruin… these
places lie in the midst of cities, deserted, desolate.
Barren inhospitable space, yet teeming with life. |
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DESERT
: 6th MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE
MONTREAL - SEPTEMBER 20 TO 27, 2004 - PRESENTED BY CHAMP
LIBRE
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