Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Volume 26) (Electronic Mediations)

In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book’s title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? Making an exquisite and unexpected connection between the old and the new, __Digital Baroque__ analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts’ dialogue with early modern concepts. Among the works discussed are digitally oriented films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker; video installations by Thierry Kuntzel, Keith Piper, and Renate Ferro; and interactive media works by Toni Dove, David Rokeby, and Jill Scott. Sophisticated readings reveal the electronic psychosocial webs and digital representations that link text, film, and computer. Murray puts forth an innovative Deleuzian psychophilosophical approach—one that argues that understanding new media art requires a fundamental conceptual shift from linear visual projection to nonlinear temporal folds intrinsic to the digital form. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction: Baroque Folds and Digital Incompossibilities 20 I. From Video Black to Digital Baroque 52 1. Digital Baroque: Performative Passage from Hatoum to Viola 54 2. Et in Arcadia Video: Poussin’ the Image of Culture with Thierry Kuntzel and Louis Marin 77 II. Digital Deleuze: Baroque Folds of Shakespearean Passage 102 3. The Crisis of Cinema in the Age of New World-Memory: The Baroque Legacy of Jean-Luc Godard 104 4. You Are How You Read: Baroque Chao-Errancy in Greenaway and Deleuze 130 III. Present Past: Digitality, Psychoanalysis, and the Memory of Cinema 154 5. Digitality and the Memory of Cinema: Bearing the Losses of the Digital Code 156 6. Wounds of Repetition in the Age of the Digital: Chris Marker’s Cinematic Ghosts 178 7. Philosophical Toys and Kaleidoscopes of the Unfamiliar: The Haunting Voices of Toni Dove and Zoe Belo 197 8. Digital Incompossibility: Cruising the Aesthetic Haze of New Media 214 IV. Scanning the Future 234 9. Psychic Scansion: The Marker of the Digital In-Between 236 10. Time @ Cinema’s Future: New Media Art and the Thought of Temporality 257 Notes 280 Publication History 310 Index 312 A 312 B 313 C 314 D 315 E 316 F 317 G 317 H 318 I 318 J 319 K 319 L 320 M 320 N 322 O 322 P 322 Q 324 R 324 S 325 T 326 U 327 V 327 W 328 Y 328 Z 328 "In this intellectually groundbreaking work, Timothy Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? Making an exquisite and unexpected connection between the old and the new, Digital Baroque analyzes the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts. Examining a wide range of art forms, Murray reflects on the rhetorical, emotive, and social forces inherent in the screen arts' dialog with early modern concepts. Among the works discussed are digitally oriented films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker; video installations by Thierry Kuntzel, Keith Piper, and Renate Ferro; and interactive media works by Toni Dove, David Rokeby, and Jill Scott. Sophisticated readings reveal the electronic psychosocial webs and digital representations that link text, film, and computer. Murray puts forth an innovative Deleuzian psychophilosophical approach--one that argues that understanding new media art requires a fundamental conceptual shift from linear visual projection to nonlinear temporal fields intrinsic to the digital form"--Page 4 de la couverture Digital Baroque : Performative Passage From Hatoum To Viola -- Et In Arcadia Video : Poussin' The Image Of Culture With Thierry Kuntzel And Louis Marin -- The Crisis Of Cinema In The Age Of New World-memory : The Baroque Legacy Of Jean-luc Godard -- You Are How You Read : Baroque Chao-errancy In Greenaway And Deleuze -- Digitality And The Memory Of Cinema : Bearing The Losses Of The Digital Code -- Wounds Of Repetition In The Age Of The Digital: Chris Marker's Cinematic Ghosts -- Philosophical Toys And Kaleidoscopes Of The Unfamiliar : The Haunting Voices Of Toni Dove And Zoe Beloff -- Digital Incompossibility: Cruising The Aesthetic Haze Of New Media -- Psychic Scansion: The Marker Of The Digital In-between -- Time @ Cinema's Future : New Media Art And The Thought Of Temporality. Timothy Murray. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 261-290) And Index. Murray investigates a paradox embodied in the book's title: What is the relationship between digital, in the form of new media art, and baroque, a highly developed early modern philosophy of art? This book analyses the philosophical paradigms that inform contemporary screen arts