Critical Writing Index

Empathy, Mutation, Audience

by Simona Lodi

Tony Oursler, 1998, pp. 11-14

Milano: Edizioni Charta, 1998

This essay looks at a range of Tony Oursler's video installation works. It discusses how the installations represent a simplified system of reality, and serve to investigate the mechanism that links the mass media to the whole range of psychological and social disorders and to the increase in violent crimes. It also looks at his style of transposing organic sensations into an aesthetic object in an attempt to to change the psychic life into external reality.

ITEM 1998.057 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Loner – Tony Oursler

Spin Out – Tony Oursler

Evol – Tony Oursler

The Flock – Tony Oursler

Blue/White State – Tony Oursler

Submerged – Tony Oursler

In/Out Out/In – Tony Oursler

Talking Light – Tony Oursler

Bull Balls – Tony Oursler