Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema
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
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Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Last Angel of History – John Akomfrah
Level Fire – Chris Marker
Kyotopolis – David Moses
URBANtells – Steve Bradley, Joe Reinsel, James Rouvelle
Dialtones – Golan Levin
A Rehearsal of Memory – Graham Harwood
Living Tomorrow – Linda Wallace
Life after Wartime – Kate Richard
The Man without a World – Eleanor Antin
Urban Peasants – Ken Jacob
Cooperation of Parts – Daniel Eisenberg
Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film – Jeffrey Skoller
Signal-Germany in the Air – Ernie Gehr
Utopia – James Benning
The Sorrow and the Pity – Marcel Ophüls
Amika – Graeme Ferguson
The Dream is Alive – David Breashears
Everest – Toni Myers
SpaceStation 3D – Charles Earnes
Glimpses of the USA