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MEDIA OFF-SCREEN. Topic Three: Space. Michel de Certeau ( quote in Suderburg p. 19). “Space is a practiced place ” . Artists and Movements.
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MEDIA OFF-SCREEN Topic Three: Space
Michel de Certeau (quote in Suderburg p. 19) “Space is a practiced place”
Artists and Movements • Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Peter Campus, Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider, Gary Hill, Bill Viola, Mary Lucier, Steve McQueen, Isaac Julien, IñigoManglano-Ovalle, PipilottiRist, Doug Aitken, Eija-LiisaAhtilla, ShirinNeshat, Kutlug Ataman, Julian Rosefeldt, Diana Thater, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Stan Douglas, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Perry Bard, Marie Sester, David Claerbout, KutluğAtaman
Key Concepts & Genres • Site specificity (changing definitions of the term) • Late 1960s / early 1970s: “a real place” –phenomenological • Robert Smithson’s site and non-site • Institutional critique: site as “cultural framework” – social/institutional • Richard Serra’s Tilted Arc, 1981-89
“Functional site” – discursive • These are overlapping and competing definitions
Robert Smithson, Site and Nonsite A Nonsite (Franklin, New Jersey), 1968 Spiral Jetty, 1970
Krzysztof Wodiczko, The Tijuana Projection,at Centro Cultural de Tijuana, 2001
Media artists as “urbanists” and “translators” who “make visible the invisible” (Willis) • Installation as sculpture, architecture, environment, performance, collection and arrangement of objects, media • Gesamtkunstwerk • Wunderkammern / cabinets de curiosité / Kunstkammern • Expanded cinema / intermedia environments
Installation as the new cinema: immersive and cinematic (Rush)
Man with a Movie Camera: Global Remake (2008 – Present) by Perry Bard http://dziga.perrybard.net/ • Kinopravada and kinoks • Variantology