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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792796403321

Autore

Balsom Erika

Titolo

After uniqueness : a history of film and video art in circulation / / Erika Balsom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-231-17692-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 pages)

Collana

Film and Culture Series

Disciplina

302.2343

Soggetti

Motion picture audiences - History

Video art - History

Motion pictures and the arts

Art and motion pictures

Motion picture industry - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Copy Rites -- 1. The Promise and Threat of Reproducibility -- 2. 8 mm and the "Blessings of Books and Records" -- 3. Bootlegging Experimental Film -- 4. Copyright and the Commons -- 5. The Limited Edition -- 6. The Event of Projection -- 7. A Cinematic Bayreuth -- 8. Transmission, from the Movie-Drome to Vdrome -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital reproduction has also stoked new anxieties concerning authenticity and ownership. From this contemporary vantage point, After Uniqueness traces the ambivalence of reproducibility through the intersecting histories of experimental cinema and the moving image in art, examining how artists, filmmakers, and theorists have found in the copy a utopian promise or a dangerous inauthenticity-or both at once.From the sale of film in limited editions on the art market to the downloading of bootlegs, from



the singularity of live cinema to video art broadcast on television, Erika Balsom investigates how the reproducibility of the moving image has been embraced, rejected, and negotiated by major figures including Stan Brakhage, Leo Castelli, and Gregory Markopoulos. Through a comparative analysis of selected distribution models and key case studies, she demonstrates how the question of image circulation is central to the history of film and video art. After Uniqueness shows that distribution channels are more than neutral pathways; they determine how we encounter, interpret, and write the history of the moving image as an art form.