Technology and Desire :The Transgressive Art of Moving Images ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :The Transgressive Art of Moving Images

Publication series :1

Author: Gaafar   Rania;Schulz   Martin  

Publisher: Intellect Books‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781783201679

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841504612

Subject: J93 Film, TV Art and Technology

Keyword: 社会学

Language: ENG

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Description

The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays, and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in theory or practice) of images across the disciplines. Digital technologies have not only shaped post-cinematic media cultures and visual epistemologies, but they are behind a growing shift towards a new realism in theory, art, film, and in the art of the moving image in particular. Technology and Desire examines the performative ontologies of moving images across the genealogies of media and their aesthetic agency in contemporary media and video art, CGI, painting, video games, and installations. Drawing on cultural studies, media and film theory as well as art history to provide exemplary evidence of this shift, this book has as its central theme the question of whether images are predicated upon transgressing the boundaries of their framing – and whether in the course of their existence they develop a life of their own.

Chapter

Prelude: Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls, or the Sudden Disorganization of Boundaries

PART I: Post-Medial Image Cultures and New Media Philosophies

Chapter 1: Technical Repetition and Digital Art, or Why the ‘Digital’ in Digital Cinema is not the ‘Digital’ in Digital Technics

Chapter 2: Arrest and Movement

Chapter 3: The Aesthetics of Flow and the Aesthetics of Catharsis

Chapter 4: Digital Images and Computer Simulations

Chapter 5: Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics, or the Unthought at the Heart of Wood

PART II: Fugitive Images and Transmediality

Chapter 6: Animated and Animating Landscapes: Space Voyages and Time Travel in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Colour Plates

Chapter 7: Copernicus and I: Revolutions in Perception and The Powers of Ten

Chapter 8: Cinema Mise en abyme: Contingencies of the Moving Image

Chapter 9: Still Life in the Crosshairs, or For an Iconic Turn in Game Studies

Chapter 10: Out of Image

PART III: Post-Cinematic Desires: Genealogies of Anthropomorphic Transgressions

Chapter 11: Choreographing the Moving Image: Post-Cinematic Desire and the Politics of Aesthetics

Chapter 12: Desire, Time and Transition in Anthropological Film-making

Chapter 13: Longing in Film: Emotions in Images

Chapter 14: The Fever Curve of the Gaze and the Body as (Image) Medium: Jacques Lacan’s Media Theory of Unconscious Desire

PART IV: Material Specters and the Lives of Images

Chapter 15: The Sequence Image Between Motion and Stillness

Chapter 16: Gaze and Withdrawal: On the ‘Logic’ of Iconic Structures

Chapter 17: The Magical Image in Georges Méliès’s Cinema

Chapter 18: Liminal Spaces: Notes by Film-maker and Artist Malcolm Le Grice

Chapter 19: Transgression: The Ethical Turn and the New Politics – Fatih Akin’s Cinema and the Multicultural Dilemma

Chapter 20: Radicant Spaces of Enunciation: Visual Art, ‘Phenomenotechnique’, and ‘Criticality’ – Towards a Postcolonial Media(l) Theory

Biographies of Authors

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