{"id":2081,"date":"2010-06-02T19:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2010-06-02T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:11:12","slug":"screening-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/screening-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"

I penned a book review for Rhizome.org<\/a>, and another is coming soon. Teaser:<\/p>\n

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\nCover of Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art<\/em> by Kate Mondloch<\/span><\/p>\n

Kate Mondloch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art<\/em><\/a>, is a welcome study of the cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal and plasma displays, and film, video and data projections that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pervade contemporary life\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (xi). The author reminds us that screens are not just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153illusionist windows\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into other spaces or worlds, but also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153physical, material entities [that] beckon, provoke, separate, and seduce\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (xii). Most importantly, however, Mondloch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach is that of an art historian. She does not merely use art as a case study for media theory, but rather makes the contributions of artists her central focus in this, the first in-depth study of the space between bodies and screens in contemporary art.<\/p>\n

Like Nicolas Bourriaud in his Relational Aesthetics<\/em>, Mondloch begins in the gallery space, and is interested in creating a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discrete critical framework\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (63) for a specific genre: what she calls \u00e2\u20ac\u0153screen-reliant\u00e2\u20ac\u009d art. Mondloch recognizes the import of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153viewing subjects\u00e2\u20ac\u009d engaging with \u00e2\u20ac\u0153actual art objects\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (xii \u00e2\u20ac\u201c xiii) and attempts to apply a combination of post-structural theory and phenomenology to her study. Here she describes the relationships between virtual and actual, sign and material, involving the theories and philosophies of Lacan and Deleuze on the mirror stage and cinema, for example, but always including the screen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inherent materiality in how art is experienced.<\/p>\n

Chapter 1, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Interface Matters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d describes in detail Mondloch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s category of screen-reliant installation art, looking to the work of Paul Sharits and Michael Snow as examples of how artists of the 1960s were, for the first time, investigating the interface of the screen itself: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the multifarious physical and conceptual points at which the observing subject meets the media object\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (2). Here she goes to great lengths to remember the differences between screenings of<\/em> film, and screens in<\/em> film and video installation. The latter are hybridized as spatial and temporal, akin to Minimalism in their approach to the body, but with the potential for entwined and confused narratives as the timeline of its materials unfold. Mondloch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reading of Snow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Two Sides to Every Story<\/em> is especially poignant.<\/p>\n

Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I penned a book review for Rhizome.org, and another is coming soon. Teaser: Cover of Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art by Kate Mondloch Kate Mondloch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art, is a welcome study of the cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal and plasma displays, and film, video and data projections that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pervade contemporary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,7,8,25,19,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-me","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-reviews","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-theory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-xz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5749,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/18\/syllabus-sharing-interactive-and-generative-art-a-max-msp-and-jitter-class-at-uwm\/","url_meta":{"origin":2081,"position":0},"title":"Syllabus sharing! 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