More than illustrated music : aesthetics of hybrid media between pop, art and video

The genre of the video clip has been established for more than thirty years, mainly served by the sub genres of video art and music video. This book explores processes of hybridization between music video, film, and video art by presenting current theoretical discourses and engaging them through interviews with well-known artists and directors, bringing to the surface the crucial questions of art practice. The collection discusses topics including postcolonialism, posthumanism, gender, race and class and addresses questions regarding the hybrid media structure of video, the diffusion between content and form, art and commerce as well as pop culture and counterculture. Through the diversity of the areas and interviews included, the book builds on and moves beyond earlier aesthetics-driven perspectives on music video. Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Figures 8 Introduction 10 Part I: Media Archaeology: The Beginning of Hybrid Media 18 Chapter 1: Music Video and Its Convergence Potential: From the Hybrid to the Permeable 20 Chapter 2: Sound and Vision: Early Artists’ Video and Music 38 Chapter 3: The Process of Creating Was More Important than the Object 51 Part II: Media Archives on Hybrids 54 Chapter 4: It Belongs in a Museum? Music Videos in Danish Museum Exhibitions 56 Chapter 5: No Returns for Dislike: How Music Videos and Video Art Entered the Living Room in the 1980s 68 Chapter 6: An Aura with Pencil, Brushes, and Pixels 82 Part III: Hybrid Imagines: Media Aesthetics between Pop and Identity 86 Chapter 7: You Need to Calm Down—Stardom and Cancel Culture: The Music Video as an Audiovisual Protest Poster 88 Chapter 8: Facing the Lens of the Camera: Bodies, Self-portraiture, Portraiture, and Identity in Women Artists’ Video 102 Chapter 9: Spirit of Creation—between Documenting, Expressing, and Archiving 115 Part IV: Aesthetics of Popular Media Hybrids 122 Chapter 10: Trans* Bowie . . . Trans* Prince 124 Chapter 11: Black Queen and King: Iconographies of Self-empowerment, Canon, and Pop in the Current Music Video 134 Chapter 12: Audiovisual Art Is about Hybridization 154 Part V: Future Aesthetics on Hybrid Media 160 Chapter 13: Music Video Distortion and Posthuman Technogenesis 162 Chapter 14: Untimely Futures and the Art of Revolutionary Life 174 Chapter 15: Feeling Closer to the Track—The Representation of Blackness in Music Video 188 Part VI: Media Art Hybrids 194 Chapter 16: Hold Up: Mapping the Boundaries between Music Video and Video Art 196 Chapter 17: But Still . . . Is It Art?: Contemporary Music Video, Art (Discourse), and Authority—Revisited 207 Chapter 18: Time-Based Media Art in Music Video—One Does Something the Other Cannot 222 Biographies 226 Index 231 "Examines the processes of hybridization between music video, film, and video art by presenting current theoretical discourses and exploring crucial questions of art practice"-- Provided by publisher