Abstract Video : The Moving Image in Contemporary Art / ed. by Gabrielle Jennings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baumgärtel, Tilman, Contributor.

Brophy, Philip, Contributor.

Connor, Michael, Contributor.

Cook, Sarah, Contributor.

Dalton, Trinie, Contributor.

Frost, Charlotte, Contributor.

Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, Contributor.

Gosse, Johanna, Contributor.

Hanhardt, John G., Contributor.

Jennings, Gabrielle, Contributor.

Jennings, Gabrielle, Editor.

Jones, Caitlin, Contributor.

Kahn, Stanya, Contributor.

Keefer, Cindy, Contributor.

Kwastek, Katja, Contributor.

Mondloch, Kate, Contributor.

Ross, Christine, Contributor.

Tan, Lumi, Contributor.

Villaseñor, Maria-Christina, Contributor.

Welchman, John C., Contributor.

Wilson, Siona, Contributor.

Zinman, Gregory, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film. Editor Gabrielle Jennings—a video artist herself—reveals as never before how works of abstract video are not merely, as the renowned curator Kirk Varnedoe once put it, "pictures of nothing," but rather amorphous, ungovernable spaces that encourage contemplation and innovation. In explorations of the work of celebrated artists such as Jeremy Blake, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Ryoji Ikeda, Takeshi Murata, Diana Thater, and Jennifer West, alongside emerging artists, this volume presents fresh and vigorous perspectives on a burgeoning and ever-changing arena of contemporary art.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE Abstract Video Art

1 INTRODUCTION On the Horizon

PART ONE TRANSMISSION

2 FILM IMAGE / ELECTRONIC IMAGE The Construction of Abstraction, 1960– 1990

3 JOSEPH KOSUTH’S THE SECOND INVESTIGATION IN VANCOUVER (1969) Art on TV

4 ABSTRACT TRANSMISSIONS Other Trajectories for Feminist Video

5 ABSTRACT VIDEO

PART TWO. INTERFERENCE

6 VISUAL MUSIC’S INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACTION

7 GETTING MESSY Chance and Glitch in Contemporary Video Art

8 DELIRIOUS ARCHITECTURES Notes on Jeremy Blake, “Liquid Crystal Palace,” and Digital Materialism

9 ABSTRACT VIDEO net.video.abstraction

10 INTERACTIVE ABSTRACTIONS Between Embodied Exploration and Instrumental Control “Underneath Your Fingertips”

PART THREE RECEPTION

11 REAL TIME, SCREEN TIME

12 THE SPREADABILITY OF VIDEO

13 SPECTRAL PROJECTIONS Color, Race, and Abstraction in the Moving Image

14 GO WITH THE (UNREGULATED) FLOW Fluidity, Abjection, and Abstraction

15 SINE QUA SON Considering the Sine Wave Tone in Electronic Art

MEDIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025)