The turn to liveness : media art and the live transmission.
by
McGough, Laura.
Title
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The turn to liveness : media art and the live transmission.
Author
:
McGough, Laura.
ISBN
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9780355679908
Personal Author
:
McGough, Laura.
Publication Information
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Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018
Physical Description
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1 online resoruce (168 p.)
General Note
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Includes supplementary digital materials.
Adviser: Royal Rousel.
Abstract
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The aim of this dissertation is to explore the current turn to liveness within the media arts through an analysis of the live televisual transmission. In specific, I posit that this turn is actually a return, and frame contemporary live televisual works as a part of a rich, but understudied, media art genre marked by a long history of experimentation with the live transmission as an artistic medium. I argue that artists across media generations have worked to distinguish the live televisual transmission as an art form through a strategic leveraging of the medium's most basic characteristics: co-presence, unpredictability and leakiness. To demonstrate this, I analyze a range of live televisual transmission artworks beginning with Lucio Fontana's Luminous Images in Movement (1952) to recent live streaming projects that utilize social media broadcasting platforms. I critically read across the live televisual transmission across four genealogies of practice to determine how artists: 1) developed an aesthetics of the live transmission distinguishable from both visual arts practices and mainstream media; 2) activated the live transmission as a two-way send and receive link to establish a spatial and temporal co-presence in which artist and viewer shared screen space in real-time; 3) introduced unpredictability to the live transmission as a strategy to interpellate viewers and enhance participation; and 4) exploited the inherent leakiness of the live televisual transmission to create unique spectatorial experiences that revealed its materiality and countered hegemonic control of the airwaves. I conclude with a brief exposition on the future of the live televisual transmission as an artistic genre by examining emerging practices of live witnessing.
Local Note
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School code: 0656.
Subject Term
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Art history.
Mass communication.
Electronic Access
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Added Corporate Author
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State University of New York at Buffalo. Media Study.
Thesis Note
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2018.
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NPM Library | XX(224656.1) | 224656-1001 | 1 | ER | *電子書(西文) |