"Published with ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne"--Title page. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Trailer time: cinematic expectations and contemporary art / Maeve Connolly. The moving image as seen at the end of the mechanical age / Julie Reiss -- Prospect in retrospect: the exhibition Prospect 71: projection / Maxa Zoller -- Moving panoramas: Jesper Just's digital magnascope / Giuliana Bruno -- Before the cinematic turn: video projection in the 1970s / Erika Balsom -- The medium is the eyeball massage / Kate Mondloch -- On 'GEFF' / Greg de Cuir, Jr. -- Cinema in the public space: poster films of the Empire Marketing Board / François Bovier -- Trailer time: cinematic expectations and contemporary art / Maeve Connolly.
Summary:
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.
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