Electric Seeing : : Positions in Contemporary Video Art / / Charlotte Klink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• Funder: Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft für die Forschung mbH
• VerfasserIn: Klink, Charlotte,
• Author: Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft für die Forschung mbH
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Image ; 193
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; I. Video—I See --; Three Approaches --; 1 Heterogeneity --; 2 Technology --; 3 Etymology --; II. Medium and Index --; 1 The Medium --; 2 The Index --; III. The Aesthetics of Narcissism: Medium, Perspective, Subject, Body --; Aesthetics of Narcissism—An Introduction --; “A Commonplace of Criticism”— Two Moments of Video’s Aesthetic Heritage --; 2 Medium, Subject, Body --; 3. The Aesthetics of Narcissism --; IV. Video: The Aesthetics Of Phantasm --; On Si[gh]t(e): The Video Condition --; 1 Apparatus --; 2 From the Imaginary to the Phantasm --; 3 The Phantasm—$ ◊ a --; Transformation of a Missed Encounter: Circulation, Lack, Drive --; Appendix. Bodies, Testifying: The Performance Works of Alexandra Pirici and Anne Imhof --; Bibliography --; Illustrations
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839457009; 9783110767001; 9783110992809; 9783110992816; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783111025094; 9783110768510
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839457009?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charlotte Klink.

What is the subject of video?Charlotte Klink traces the development of electromagnetism in the pursuit of »Electric Seeing« that emerged in the 19th century as well as its curious relation to psychoanalysis and the contemporary discovery of the structure of the human psyche. In doing so, she exposes how this development laid the foundation of what we know today as »video«. This comprehensive theory of video entails a discussion of the technological, historical, and etymological roots, the media-theoretical concepts of medium and index, the philosophical and art-theoretical environment in which video emerged in the 1960s, the psychoanalytic concept of the phantasm, and artworks by artists such as Yael Bartana and Hito Steyerl.