Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art

Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art
Author: Erika Balsom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
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Whether it involves remaking an old Hollywood movie, projecting a quiet 16mm film, or constructing a bombastic multi-screen environment, cinema now takes place not just in the movie theatre and the home, but also in the art gallery and the museum. The author of this engaging study takes stock of this development, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and the ramifications it has for art and cinema alike. Through the lens of contemporary art history, she examines cinema studies' great disciplinary obsession - namely, what cinema was, is, and will become in a digital future.

Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art

Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art
Author: Erika Balsom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789089644718

Once at the margins of the art world, film now occupies a prominent place in museums and galleries. Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art explores the emergence of cinema as a primary medium of artistic production, offering an in-depth inquiry into its genesis, its defining features, and its ramifications. Erika Balsom also tackles cinema studies' great disciplinary obsession--namely, what cinema was, is, and will become in a digital future. Rich in theoretical reflections and critical analyses, Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art offers insights into the whole history of cinema from the vantage point of today's art.

After Uniqueness

After Uniqueness
Author: Erika Balsom
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231543123

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital reproduction has also stoked new anxieties concerning authenticity and ownership. From this contemporary vantage point, After Uniqueness traces the ambivalence of reproducibility through the intersecting histories of experimental cinema and the moving image in art, examining how artists, filmmakers, and theorists have found in the copy a utopian promise or a dangerous inauthenticity—or both at once. From the sale of film in limited editions on the art market to the downloading of bootlegs, from the singularity of live cinema to video art broadcast on television, Erika Balsom investigates how the reproducibility of the moving image has been embraced, rejected, and negotiated by major figures including Stan Brakhage, Leo Castelli, and Gregory Markopoulos. Through a comparative analysis of selected distribution models and key case studies, she demonstrates how the question of image circulation is central to the history of film and video art. After Uniqueness shows that distribution channels are more than neutral pathways; they determine how we encounter, interpret, and write the history of the moving image as an art form.

Exhibiting the Moving Image

Exhibiting the Moving Image
Author: François Bovier
Publisher: Jrp Ringier
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783037643884

Since the 1990s, a cinematographic turn has taken place in contemporary art, paralleled by the emergence of a cinema of exhibition. This collection of new essays investigates the relationships between the white cube and the black box, focusing mainly on the 1970s, a decade in which film practices and moving images were integrated into museums and art spaces. The authors analyze multiple modalities of presenting the moving image through historical case studies: the anatomy of video art, expanded cinema, artists' films and installations, and the moving image in the public sphere. Exploring examples from the 1930s to the present, these contributions address commercial, spectacular or advertising forms of moving images, artists' performative practices, installations in large museums, exhibitions devoted to projections and festivals of experimental films.

Museum as a Cinematic Space

Museum as a Cinematic Space
Author: Elisa Mandelli
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-06-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474416802

With an innovative and strongly interdisciplinary theoretical framework, this book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design.

Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art

Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art
Author: Jill Murphy
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048542022

As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic from the immateriality of the film screen, separating it into its physical components within the gallery space. How do film theorists read these reformulations of the cinematic medium and their critique of what it is and has been? Theorizing Cinema through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema considers artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configurations of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, thereby addressing the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. Taking film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposing it with artworks that render cinema as a material object, this book unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have often been seen as virtually incompatible, heightening our understanding of each and, more pertinently, their interactions.

Dreamlands

Dreamlands
Author: Chrissie Iles
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0300221878

A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists who have pushed the material and conceptual boundaries of cinema. Over the past century, the material, optical, abstract, spatial, and tactile properties of film have been tested at a level of experimentation and utopian ambition that is generally unrecognized. Whether creating synesthetic or 3-D environments, projective or non-projective installations, generations of leading-edge artists have explored how technology transforms experience. The essays published here offer an intensive look at the themes of cinematic space, formats of the screen, animation and CGI, the body and the cyborg, and the materiality of film. Contributors place particular emphasis on the idea of the cinema as a sensorium and on the ways in which it defines the human body, both through representation and in relation to the projected image. An immersive plate section brings together rarely seen and previously unpublished stills, in addition to concept drawings from historic and contemporary films.

Future Cinema

Future Cinema
Author: Jeffrey Shaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Digital cinematography
ISBN: 9780262692861

Preserving and exhibiting media art

Preserving and exhibiting media art
Author: Vinzenz Hediger
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048513839

Kunstenaars hebben altijd in hun werk geëxperimenteerd met de mogelijkheden van media als film, video en digitale technologie. Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art belicht de nieuwe uitdagingen die deze multimediale kunstwerken stellen aan de traditionele manieren van verzamelen, conserveren en tentoonstellen van beeldende kunst. Daarnaast schetst het door middel van diverse casestudies de contouren van de training en opleiding van professionals in dit veld. Het boek biedt bovendien een historisch en theoretisch overzicht en levert een belangrijke bijdrage aan de literatuur over archieftheorie en -praktijk en is daarmee een referentiepunt voor iedereen die zich bezighoudt met de conservering en presentatie van mediakunst. This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the emergence of time-based media such as film, video and digital technology, artists have used them to experiment with their potential. The resulting artworks, with their basis in rapidly developing technologies that cross over into other domains such as broadcasting and social media, have challenged the traditional infrastructures for the collection, preservation and exhibition of art. Addressing these challenges, the authors provide a historical and theoretical survey of the field, and introduce students to the challenges and difficulties of preserving and exhibiting media art through a series of first-hand case studies. Situated at the threshold between archival practices and film and media theory, it also makes a strong contribution to the growing literature on archive theory and archival practices.