Stan VanDerBeek: Violence Sonata / The History of Violence in America (1970)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · art, collage, education, machine, mass media, media, participation, performance, technology, television, violence
Stan VanDerBeek was part of the “Rockefeller Artists-in-Television” residency program at Boston public television station WGBH from 1969–1970, during which time he produced the simulcast television program Violence Sonata. The program, directed by David Atwood and Fred Barzyk, was transmitted simultaneously on both Channels 2 and 44 on January 12, 1970, with the suggestion that viewers place two television sets side-by-side. Following sonata form, the piece is composed of three segments: “Man,” “Man to Woman,” and “Man to Man.” The simultaneous broadcast consisted of material VanDerBeek composed from previous films, archival and newsreel footage, video shot in Boston for the show, and filmed collages, further manipulated and enhanced through overlays and color saturation. Sections of the broadcast were played before a live studio audience, with actors also performing a play written by VanDerBeek for the show. Home viewers were encouraged to call in their responses to the program between the acts. The series of collages entitled The History of Violence in America was conceived as layouts for reproduction and publication in a booklet to accompany the broadcast.
Commentary: Melissa Ragain (X-TRA, 2012).
Video excerpt (Violence Sonata)
PDF (Violence Sonata – script, photo documentation, sketches, collages, reviews)
PDF (The History of Violence in America, 22 pages)
Albert Kümmel, Erhard Schüttpelz (eds.): Signale der Störung (2003) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · media, media theory, systems theory
Störung und Entstörung. Signale und Nicht-Signale könne die Plätze tauschen. Wo dies geschieht, verändert sich das Medium und wird operabel.
Mit Beiträgen von Friedrich Balke, Heike Behrend, Peter Berz, Ralf Gehrhard Ehlert, Eva Horn, Rembert Hüser, Rudolf Kaehr, Christian Kassung, Ralph Klamma, Peter Krapp, Albert Kümmel, Thomas Lemke, Petra Löffler, Susanne Regener, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Axel Roch, Jan Peter de Ruiter, Dietrich Sawicki, Eckhard Schumacher Erhard Schüttpelz, Luise Springer, Georg Stanitzek, Georg Trogemann und Samuel Weber.
Publisher Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 2003
ISBN 3770537467, 9783770537464
378 pages
PDF (no OCR)
Comment (0)Richard Grusin: Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11 (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · affect, mass media, media, mediality, memory, preemption, remediation, security
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have been called the world’s first live global media event. Responding to the immediacy and collective shock produced by live coverage of the collapse of the Twin Towers, print, televisual, and networked media have become obsessed with the pre-mediation of potential futures.
In an era of heightened securitization, US and global media have attempted to prevent a recurrence of such media trauma by ensuring that no future will be able to emerge into the present that has not already been premeditated in the past. Socially networked US and global media work to premediate collective affects of anticipation and connectivity, while also perpetuating low levels of apprehension or fear.
Following up on the groundbreaking work of media theory Remediation: Understanding New Media, Grusin develops the logic of premediation in terms of such concepts as mediality, the affective life of media, and the anticipation of security.
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
ISBN 0230242529, 9780230242524
240 pages
review (Jussi Parikka, Leonardo)
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