Digital baroque : new media art and cinematic folds / Timothy Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Timothy.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 26.

Electronic mediations ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Baroque.

Digital video.

Installations (Art).

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? Making an exquisite and unexpected connection between the old and the new, Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts' dialogue with early modern concepts. Among the works discu

Contents:

Digital Baroque : Performative Passage from Hatoum to Viola

Et in Arcadia Video : Poussin' the Image of Culture with Thierry Kuntzel and Louis Marin

The Crisis of Cinema in the Age of New World-Memory : The Baroque Legacy of Jean-Luc Godard

You Are How You Read : Baroque Chao-Errancy in Greenaway and Deleuze

Digitality and the Memory of Cinema : Bearing the Losses of the Digital Code

Wounds of Repetition in the Age of the Digital: Chris Marker's Cinematic Ghosts

Philosophical Toys and Kaleidoscopes of the Unfamiliar : The Haunting Voices of Toni Dove and Zoe Beloff

Digital Incompossibility: Cruising the Aesthetic Haze of New Media

Psychic Scansion: The Marker of the Digital In-Between

Time @ Cinema's Future : New Media Art and the Thought of Temporality.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-290) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6620-2

OCLC:

318216096