Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art

Index

Index 123 Acconci, Vito, 37, 39 Adams, Parveen, 29, 34 Ahtila, Eija-Liisa, xii, 40; Consolation Service, xix, 49–51, 52, 53, 112n24; experimental films of, 51 Aitken, Doug, xii, 40; electric earth, xix, 41, 47–49, 53 Alberti, Leon Battista, xiii, 63 alienation: Marxist critique of, 25; of subject, 34 Archer, Michael, 55, 113n40 art: community building in, 120n16; fin-de-siècle, 55; premodern, 98n7; public, 121n5; relationship to cinema , xvi; screen-based, xi–xiii, xv, 1; spectatorship for, xii, 25, 64; temporal engagements with, 110n1. See also closed-circuit video installations; installation art, screen-reliant art history: digital art in, 79; gaze in, 98n10; installation art in, xv; museum audiences in, 56; on postmedium condition, 100n20; screens in, xvii, 101n23; spectatorship in, 93, 95, 98n10, 107n10 art institutions: media screens in, xi–xiii, xvi, xviii, 6, 62, 63; reflexivity about, 98n8; temporality of, 56. See also galleries attention: coerced, 35; cultural foundations of, 22; psychological explanations of, 22–23; regulation of, 23; of spectators, 21–24; technologies of, 35, 39 avatars, digital, 81, 119n13 Barthes, Roland, 115n6; “Leaving the Movie Theater,” 19 Bateson, Gregory, 103n12 Baudrillard, Jean, 77, 79 Baudry, Jean-Louis, 61, 74 Bellour, Raymond, 55 Benjamin, Walter, 116n16; “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 94–95 Bergson, Henri: on images, 120n23; on time, 36, 109n30 bidirectional browsing units (BBUs), 81, 82 Biesenbach, Klaus: Loop, 58 Birnbaum, Daniel, 40; Chronology, 53, 100n19; on the subject, 112n30 black boxes: in galleries, xii body–screen interfaces, xviii, xix, xxi, 17, 41; coercive, 21, 24, 35; materiality of, 69; spatial aspects of, 69, 75; temporal aspects of, 39. See also viewer–screen interfaces Borgmann, Albert, 91 Brecht, Bertolt, 26; on apparatus, 68; influence on media artists, 117n20 Bruno, Giuliana, 101n24 Buchloh, Benjamin, 107n3 Burnett, Ron, 118n4 Campus, Peter, xii, 2; Interface, 64, 69– 76, 81; on televisual discipline, 37 capitalism: and body-computer relations , 96; control mechanisms of, 23, 35, 109n24 Cartesianism, 25, 74 Cavell, Stanley, xii cinema: affective transport in, 110n1; art’s relationship to, xvi; of attractions , 101n2; avant-garde, 116n9; Benjamin on, 94–95; disruptive capacity of, 116n16; duration in, 42, 110n7; of exhibition, 52; institutional context of, xiv, 106n35, 111n9; as locational, 5–11; materiality of, 8, 61, 105n23; nonmateriality of, 15; phenomenology of, xv, 1; the sculptural and, 1–2; shot/reverse-shot technique, 18, 106n33; spectators of, xvi, xviii, 12–14, 68, 101n2, 110n1. See also film theory cinema, experimental. See experimental film closed-circuit video installations, xix, 19; criticality of, 38; live images in, 31, 33; psychological impact of, 34; spatiality of, 33, 36, 78; spectator participation in, 31, 33–34, 39, 109n21; spectators’ attention to, 23– 24; spectators’ images in, 29; time in, xix–xx, 36; visual control in, 34. See also installation art, screen-reliant communication, screen-based, xi, xxi, 12 computer networks: gaming in, 118n5; spatiality in, 78. See also Internet computer screens, 77–78; as glass doors, 88, 89; as places, 88–89; viewing subjects of, 79, 80; as windows, 88. See also digital art; media screens consciousness: cinematic nature of, 113n32; of spectators, 54 Construct (Internet design company), 119n8 Cornwell, Regina, 16, 105n27 Corral, Maria de: 51st Venice Biennale, xii Crary, Jonathan, 96, 109n24; Suspensions of Perception, 21, 35; Techniques of the Observer, 98n7 Debord, Guy, 35 Deleuze, Gilles, 101n3, 105n24; on cinema, 36; on time, 109n30; on virtuality, 90, 120nn22–23 Difference Engine #3, The, 79, 81–84; diagram of, 84; virtual reality of, 90; visitors’ images in, 81, 119n13 digital art, 118n2; in art history, 79; interactivity of, 78, 119n10; on Internet, 81–87; lifespan of, 120n15; multisited, 80, 81–82, 85, 88, 91; robotic interfaces in, 85, 89, 90; space in, 86–87; surveillance cameras in, 80; viewer privileges for, 85; viewing subject of, 87, 89; as virtual window, 87–88. See also computer screens; installation art, screen-reliant discipline: in digital technology, 96; in screen spectatorship, 21, 24, 26; televisual, 37, 38; in video technology , 39 Douglas, Stan, 53 Dreyfus, Herbert, 90 Duguet, Anne-Marie, 110n2 duration: in cinema, 42, 110n7; exploratory , 110n2; in gallery-based installations , 40–42; spectator-determined, 41, 51, 57; spectators’ experience of, 47–48, 52–59; suspended, 53; without time, 36. See also time Enwezor, Okwui: Documenta XI, xii exhibitions, screen-based, xi–xii, 97n3. See also galleries; installation art, screen-reliant experience: commodification of, 107n9 124 Index Index 125 experimental film...