Becoming commercially available in the mid 1960s, video quickly became integral to the intense experimentalism of New York City's music and art scenes.
Therapeutic Aesthetics focuses on moving image artworks as expressive of social psychopathological symptoms that arise in a climate of neoliberal cognitive capitalism, such as anxiety, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder and burnout.
Drawing on film theory, literary modernism, psychology and art history, Fields of View elucidates an expanded network of connections between avant-garde film and wider culture.
Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history.
Der Band untersucht dynamische Konfigurationen, die in der Interaktion von menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen Körpern, von Materialitäten und Technologien entstehen und fragt nach Konzepten, die deren gegenseitige Abhängigkeiten jenseits von Reifizierung und Naturalisierung denken.
Runner-up for the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies 2020Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'.
An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.
Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making.
In Media Primitivism Delinda Collier provides a sweeping new understanding of technological media in African art, rethinking the assumptions that have conceptualized African art as unmediated, primary, and natural.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the premiere of La Hora de Los Hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces) (Getino and Solanas, 1968), A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema is an edited collection that closely analyses the film, looking to the context and the socio-political landscape of 1960s Argentina, as well as the film's legacy and contemporary relevance.
One of the most important avant-garde movements of postwar Paris was Lettrism, which crucially built an interest in the relationship between writing and image into projects in poetry, painting, and especially cinema.
Working extensively as both artist and scientist, Aldo Giorgini (1934-1994) was one of the first computer artists to combine software writing with early printing technologies.
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "e;tangible phase"e; of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores.
Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics is an edited collection that covers the areas in which the series has generated the most academic interest: performance and technology; gender and reproduction; biopolitics and community.
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s.
The controversy over filmmaker Jonas Mekass memories of his WWII Lithuanian youth are delicately and humanely approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile.
Augmented Reality: Innovative Perspectives Across Art, Industry, and Academia includes a mix of critical/theoretical essays from humanities scholars, augmented reality (AR) artwork (with accompanying reflections) by leading digital artists, and interviews with AR software developers and other industry insiders.
Reflecting the dynamic creativity of its subject, this definitive guide spans the evolution, aesthetics, and practice of today s digital art, combining fresh, emerging perspectives with the nuanced insights of leading theorists.
Roosevelt's New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically.
Creative Tools, Resources and Tutorials to Help You Put the Pro in ProcreateStart your digital art journey the right way with this incredible collection of all the know-how, tools and techniques you need to jump head first into Procreate(R).
Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pans Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative endeavors.
Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both 'high' and 'popular' culture side by side.
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time.
Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media.
A riveting chronicle of Communist Party efforts to propagate Communism in the United States, concurrent with Hollywood's "e;Golden Age"e; of creativity that came to define classical Hollywood cinema.
