Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art – Lecture by Barbara London
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Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art – Lecture by Barbara London
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LECTURES Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art, lecture by Barbara London (United States), Curator-in-Residence 14 Mar 2018, Wed 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM The Single Screen, Block 43 Malan Road
In this lecture, Barbara London examines how video monitors and installations challenged the white cube. Back in the 1970s, art museums operated with object-oriented categories. Meanwhile Land Art, with its spatial site specificity, Performance Art, with its abstract notions of duration, and electronic music, with its manipulation of the electronic signal, all challenged existing conventions by propelling contemporary art beyond the limitations of the gallery’s four walls. Looking at video’s relationship to performance, theater, feminism, and politics, London will discuss the factors that facilitated museums’ support of video in its dynamic early years while also addressing one of the most pressing questions in the field today: As memory and technologies fade away, are media acquisitions destined to become conceptual works?
In this lecture, Barbara London examines how video monitors and installations challenged the white cube. Back in the 1970s, art museums operated with object-oriented categories. Meanwhile Land Art, with its spatial site specificity, Performance Art, with its abstract notions of duration, and electronic music, with its manipulation of the electronic signal, all challenged existing conventions by propelling contemporary art beyond the limitations of the gallery’s four walls. Looking at video’s relationship to performance, theater, feminism, and politics, London will discuss the factors that facilitated museums’ support of video in its dynamic early years while also addressing one of the most pressing questions in the field today: As memory and technologies fade away, are media acquisitions destined to become conceptual works?
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2018-03-14
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Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art – Lecture by Barbara London
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“Residencies Insights: History is a Story: Thoughts about Media as Art – Lecture by Barbara London,” NTU CCA Singapore Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 2024, https://ntuccasingapore.omeka.net/items/show/2978.