Body and Screen
Wide Angle, Jan. 1999, v. 21, no. 1, pp. 63-75
In this article, Margaret Morse looks at the change in relations between the screen and the body. She does so via a brief survey of media-based art; starting from the theatre, moving on to the cinema, video art and concluding with the digital age, where the two elements seem to blend more and more. By analyzing a number of works, from the 1960's to the 1990's, Morse explores the effect of changing technologies on the relationship between the physical world and the world of the screen.
ITEM 1999.100 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Empire – Andy Warhol
Casto Blue – James Turrell
Faraday's Garden – Perry Hoberman
The Sub-Division of the Electric ight – Perry Hoberman
Live Taped Corridor – Bruce Nauman
Video Surveillance Piece (Public Room/ Private Room) – Bruce Nauman
Caro – Studio Azzuro
Tree of Knlowledge – Bill Viola
Interface – Peter Campus
Age Machine – Nancy Burson
First Beauty Composite / Second Beauty Composite – Nancy Burson
The First Nuclear Powers Composite: Reagan, Thatcher, Mitterand, Brezhnev, Deng, Gandhi, Trudeau – Nancy Burson
Warhead II – Nancy Burson
Family Portrait – Luc Courchesne
Hall of Shadows – Luc Courchesne