Emmanuel Van der Auwera : a certain amount of clarity / edited by: Harlan Levey & Amanda Sarroff ; with contributions by Hans Maria de Wolf [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levey, Harlan, editor.

Sarroff, Amanda, editor.

Wolf, Hans M. De, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auwera, Emmanuel Van der, 1982-.

Auwera, Emmanuel Van der.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Certain amount of clarity

Place of Publication:

Brussel : Mercatorfonds, [2020]

Summary:

Eponymously titled with his award winning 2014 film, "A Certain Amount of Clarity" is the first monograph dedicated to the artistic practice of Emmanuel Van der Auwera whose work describes our experience of digitized life operating at intersections of documentary, reconstruction and fiction. His practice is one that demonstrates the impact of emerging technologies on perception and civic dialogue, building platforms for marginalized actors and engaging with technicians and scientists to explore the balance of ethics and aesthetics in new media. Through filmmaking, video sculpture, theatre, printmaking, and other media, Van der Auwera sets up encounters with found images that provoke a questioning of our visual literacy: How do images of contemporary mass media operate on various publics, and to what end? With the formal rigor of a logician, Van der Auwera dissects how images are engineered, mastering specialized industry techniques and intervening on their protocol. In so doing, Van der Auwera brings us no closer to a monolithic truth, but constructs new paradigms for reading images and understanding our relationships with them.0The monograph moves through works that build on the early film and is broken into 4 main sections, each addressed by a different author.

Contents:

Our bodies are temporary / Justine Ludwig

Portraits in absentia: an interview with Caroline Dumalin

FILMS

Depictions of future memories / Ive Stevenheydens

MEMENTOS

The aesthetics of clarifying something that resembles a black hole / Hans Maria De Wolf

VIDEOSCULPTURES

Index

Afterthoughts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Auwera, Emmanuel Van der, 1982- Works. Selections.

ISBN:

9789462302594

9462302596

030025394X

9780300253948

OCLC:

1191847492