Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Author: Janet Cardiff
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Pub
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783775720021

A concise retrospective, this publication contains previously unpublished written and visual material, as well as pertinent literature on the oeuvre of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. SPECIALIST

Pandemonium

Pandemonium
Author: Janet Cardiff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Site-specific installations (Art)
ISBN: 9780964922129

Edited by Julie Courtney. Essay by Richard Torchia. Foreword by Sara Jane Elk. Afterword by Sean Kelley.

Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff
Author: Janet Cardiff
Publisher: Walther Konig
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783883758244

This book documents Janet Cardiff's audio walks, the artist providing gallery-goers with walkmans which take them through the walks relying solely on the acoustic guide.

Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff
Author: Janet Cardiff
Publisher: London : Artangel
Total Pages: 71
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781902201078

This book documents Janet Cardiff's 1999 audio project, The Missing voice (Case Study B), and includes the full audio CD as well as images from this exploration of London's inner city. Part urban guide, part fiction, part film noir, her audio walk entwines the listener in a narrative that shifts through time and space. Intimate, even conspirational, Cardiff has created a psychologically absorbing experience for an audience of one at a time. You find yourself transported back in time. What was that sound? Who is speaking to you? Where does reality end, and what's imagined begin? Also included is an extended essay analyzing the artist's career to date. Born in 1957, in Brussels, Canada, Cardiff works and lives in Alberta and has shown internationally in, among others, London, New York, Berlin, and Vienna. Her work has been included in significant group exhibitions, notably Skulptur Projekte Munster, 1997; Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 1999 Carnegie International; and the Museum as Muse at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

The Secret Hotel

The Secret Hotel
Author: George Bures Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This renowned Canadian duo's audio and video works and installations examine the complexity and vertiginous nature of subjectivity in a technological world, where man is caught between present and the loss of self, between memory and experience, perception and imagination. Cardiff and Miller create interactive pieces in which the visitor is invited to touch, listen, smell and move about freely. This new catalogue presents five of those works, including "Paradise Institute" and "The Forty-Part Motet," as well as three created within the last year, all documented in installation photographs and on a DVD. With an essay from art critic and historian Jorg Heiser.

The Murder of Crows

The Murder of Crows
Author: Janet Cardiff
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Artistic collaboration
ISBN: 9783775731775

The Murder of Crows, the somber yet fascinating sound installation by the team of Canadian artists Janet Cardiff (*1957) and George Bures Miller (*1960) , evokes semiconscious dream visions, ancient myths, and last but not least Goya's etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, which shows birds swarming around the head of a sleeping man dreaming. Besides this work, the volume presents selected older projects by the two artists as well as an enlightening text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artistic director of dOCUMENTA(13). Rounding out this elaborately designed artist's book are an extensive interview with the artists, detailed information about the recording and playback techniques they employ, a DVD and 3D reproductions, and astonishing ornithological and literary texts referring to the title work that illustrate humankind's special relationship with crows.

Walking and Mapping

Walking and Mapping
Author: Karen O'Rourke
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0262528959

An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS. From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping, Karen O'Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. She offers close readings of these projects—many of which she was able to experience firsthand—and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century. Together, they form a new entity, a dynamic whole greater than the sum of its parts. By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon.

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art

The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Western Art
Author: Yael Kaduri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199841543

Résumé en 4ème de couverture: "This book examines different kinds of analogies, mutual influences, integrations, and collaborations of the audio and the visual in different art forms. The contributions, written by key theoreticians and practitioners, represent state-of-the-art case studies in contemporary art, integrating music, sound, and image with key figure of modern thinking constitute a foundation for the discussion. It thus emphasizes avant-garde and experimental tendencies, while analyzing them in historical, theoretical, and critical frameworks. The book is organized around three core subjects, each of which constitutes one section of the book. The first concentrates on the interaction between seeing and hearing. Examples of classic and digital animation, video art, choreography, and music performance, which are motivated by the issue of eye versus ear perception are examined in this section. The second section explores experimental forms emanating from the expansion of the concepts of music and space to include environmental sounds, vibrating frequencies, language, human habitats, the human body, and more. The reader will find here an analysis of different manifestations of this aesthetic shift in sound art, fine art, contemporary dance, multimedia theatre, and cinema. The last section shows how the new light shed by modernism on the performative aspect of music has led it-together with sound, voice, and text-to become active in new ways in postmodern and contemporary art creation. In addition to examples of real-time performing arts such as music theatre, experimental theatre, and dance, it includes case studies that demonstrate performativity in visual poetry, short film, and cinema. Sittingat the cutting edge of the field of music and visual arts, this book offers a unique, and at times controversial, view of this rapidly envolving area of study. Artists, curators, students, and scholars will find here a panoramic view of discourse in the field, presented by an international roster of scholars and practitioners."

The Museum as Muse

The Museum as Muse
Author: Kynaston McShine
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780810961975

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14 - June 1, 1999.

Walk on

Walk on
Author: Mike Collier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Installations (Art)
ISBN: 9781906832087

Walk On is the first exhibition to examine the astonishingly varied ways in which artists since the 1960s have undertaken a seemingly universal act - taking a walk - as their means to create new types of art.The exhibition (and this accompanying catalogue) offers an as-yet-unwritten history of recent art practice. It proposes that, across all four of the last decades, artists have worked as kinds of explorers, whether making their marks on rural wildernesses or acting as urban expeditionaries.It argues that from land art to conceptual art, and from street photography to the essay-film, much of the important art of our time has been created through an act of walking.Curated with Cynthia Morrison-Bell and artist Mike Collier, Walk On tours the UK in 2013-14 to Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; mac Birmingham; The Atkinson, Southport; and Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.