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Cybernetic Serendipity (1968): 3 Text passages
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1.  Gregor Stemmrich «Art and Cinematography»as this uses the mirror metaphor, but in order to describe the psychological situation in the normal cinema. But artists like Doug Aitken or Stan Douglas and filmmakers like Chantal Akerman, Joyce Wieland and Laura Mulvey have cast light in their films or film [more]  |
| 2. Ursula Frohne «»That's the Only Now I Get« Immersion and Participation in Video Installations by Dan Graham, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sam Taylor-Wood» Two general tendencies can be discerned in their working methods: video installations by artists such as Pipilotti Rist or Doug Aitken react affirmatively to the illusionist, affective principles of the cinematic parameters by using perfectly harmonized image [more] |
| 3. Ursula Frohne «»That's the Only Now I Get« Immersion and Participation in Video Installations by Dan Graham, Steve McQueen, Douglas Gordon, Doug Aitken, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sam Taylor-Wood» encouraging a critical distance from the Hollywood aesthetic, so familiar that it has been completely internalized by viewers, Doug Aitken speculates on the audience’s total sensual absorption, by appropriating and [more] |
