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Paik´s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art
Hanna B. Holling
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Description for Paik´s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art
Hardback. Using examples of works by Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the hugely influential Korean American artist who is considered the progenitor of video art, he author explores the relation between the artworks' concept and material, theories of musical performance and performativity, and the Bergsonian concept of duration. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 color photographs, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. .
In Paik's Virtual Archive, Hanna B. Holling contemplates the identity of multimedia artworks by reconsidering the role of conservation in our understanding of what the artwork is and how it functions within and beyond a specific historical moment. In Holling's discussion of works by Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the hugely influential Korean American artist who is considered the progenitor of video art, she explores the relation between the artworks' concept and material, theories of musical performance and performativity, and the Bergsonian concept of duration, as well as the parts these elements play in the conceptualization of multimedia artworks. Holling combines ... Read more
In Paik's Virtual Archive, Hanna B. Holling contemplates the identity of multimedia artworks by reconsidering the role of conservation in our understanding of what the artwork is and how it functions within and beyond a specific historical moment. In Holling's discussion of works by Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the hugely influential Korean American artist who is considered the progenitor of video art, she explores the relation between the artworks' concept and material, theories of musical performance and performativity, and the Bergsonian concept of duration, as well as the parts these elements play in the conceptualization of multimedia artworks. Holling combines ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520288904
SKU
V9780520288904
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About Hanna B. Holling
Hanna B. Holling is Lecturer in the History of Art and Material Studies at the Department of History of Art, University College London. She was Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Cultures of Conservation, at the Bard Graduate Center in New York and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She teaches material culture, cultures of ... Read more
Reviews for Paik´s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art
How do we care for the increasing number of artworks that challenge previously accepted notions of time and space? Hanna H lling's new book is an ambitious and clear-eyed attempt to provide an answer to that question, calling for a fundamental rethinking of curatorial and conservational notions of time and change in media artworks.
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