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Electric Seeing Positions in Contemporary Video Art Charlotte Klink
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Klink, Charlotte <p>Charlotte Klink, Künstlerin, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video.
- Media.
- Image.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Aesthetics.
- Art.
- Media Art.
- Art History.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Fine Arts.
- Local Subjects:
- Video.
- Media.
- Image.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Aesthetics.
- Art.
- Media Art.
- Art History.
- Media Aesthetics.
- Fine Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Klink, Electric Seeing Positions in Contemporary Video Art
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Charlotte Klink is an artist and image/media theorist. Her artistic practice focusses on drawing, writing, video, and performance. She completed her PhD at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (ABK) and was a visiting scholar at Tel Aviv University as a fellow of the Max Planck Society's Minerva Fellowship Program. Her research foci are contemporary art and aesthetics. She is co-founder of the DFG network 3G-Positions of the third generation after World War II and the Shoah in contemporary literature and arts.
- Summary:
- What is the subject of video?Charlotte Klink traces the development of electromagnetism in the pursuit of »Electric Seeing« that emerged in the 19th century as well as its curious relation to psychoanalysis and the contemporary discovery of the structure of the human psyche. In doing so, she exposes how this development laid the foundation of what we know today as »video«. This comprehensive theory of video entails a discussion of the technological, historical, and etymological roots, the media-theoretical concepts of medium and index, the philosophical and art-theoretical environment in which video emerged in the 1960s, the psychoanalytic concept of the phantasm, and artworks by artists such as Yael Bartana, Hito Steyerl, and Bjørn Melhus.
- Besprochen in:Neural, 73 (2024)
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Acknowledgements 5 Table of Contents 7 Introduction 12 Introduction 21 Three Approaches 24 1 Heterogeneity 25 2 Technology 39 3 Etymology 74 1 The Medium 78 2 The Index 94 Aesthetics of Narcissism-An Introduction 112 "A Commonplace of Criticism"- Two Moments of Video's Aesthetic Heritage 119 2 Medium, Subject, Body 144 3. The Aesthetics of Narcissism 169 On Si[gh]t(e): The Video Condition 188 1 Apparatus 201 2 From the Imaginary to the Phantasm 212 3 The Phantasm-$ a 248 Transformation of a Missed Encounter: Circulation, Lack, Drive 298 Appendix. Bodies, Testifying: The Performance Works of Alexandra Pirici and Anne Imhof 312 Bibliography 330 Illustrations 344
- Notes:
- Doctoral Thesis Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Tel Aviv University 2020
- ISBN:
- 9783839457009
- 3839457009
- OCLC:
- 1343104278
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