Critical Writing Index

Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema

by Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007

ISBN 9780802092977

Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema is an anthology edited by Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord exploring the implications of new media screen culture. The authors featured in the book examine "how digital technologies are transforming... contemporary visual cultures," experiences of time and space, and the relationship between mind and body.

Contents:

Acknowledgments;

Introduction by Janine Marchessault and Susan Lord;

Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67 by Janine Marchessault;

Sounds Complication: What Sixties Audio Experiments Can Teach Us about the New Media Environments by Stephen Crocker;

The Networked Screen: Moving Images, Materiality, and the Aesthetics of Size by Haidee Wasson;

The 'Iterative Circle': Transformation of Web Narrative in Amika by Sheila Petty;

Handcrank That Globalism: A Digi-Dialogue by Abigail Child;

From Photography to Imography: New Media as Metaphor by Ron Burnett;

Feminist Digital Aesthetics: The Everyday and Yesterday by Caitlin Fisher;

The Sight of Sound: The Last Angel of History by Rinaldo Walcott;

History and Histrionics: Vision Machine's Digital Poetics by Michael Uwemedimo and Joshua Oppenheimer;

From Sequence to Stream: Historiography and Media Art by Susan Lord;

The Birth of Tragedy in Digital Aesthetics by Glenn Willmott;

Armed Vision and the Banalization of War: Full Spectrum Warrior by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter;

The Dialects of Canadian Film Labour: Technology, Globalization, Nation by John McCullough;

Screening the Call: Cell Phones, Activism, and the Art of Connection by Kirsty Robertson;

Immigrant Semiosis by Laura U. Marks;

Precepts for Digital Artwork by Sean Cubitt;

Afterword: What We Must Do by Gene Youngblood;

Bibliography;

Contributors;

Index

ITEM 2007.192 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

The Last Angel of HistoryJohn Akomfrah

Level FireChris Marker

KyotopolisDavid Moses

URBANtellsSteve Bradley, Joe Reinsel, James Rouvelle

DialtonesGolan Levin

A Rehearsal of MemoryGraham Harwood

Living TomorrowLinda Wallace

Life after WartimeKate Richard

The Man without a WorldEleanor Antin

Urban PeasantsKen Jacob

Cooperation of PartsDaniel Eisenberg

Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde FilmJeffrey Skoller

Signal-Germany in the AirErnie Gehr

UtopiaJames Benning

The Sorrow and the PityMarcel Ophüls

AmikaGraeme Ferguson

The Dream is AliveDavid Breashears

EverestToni Myers

SpaceStation 3DCharles Earnes

Glimpses of the USA