Event overview
A public lecture based on Ina Blom's new book "The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology"
Ina Blom: Inside Equipment.The Autobiography of Video and the Transformation of the Artist’s Studio.
How should we think «studio practice» in the age of new media? In Machine in the Studio. Constructing the Postwar American Artist (1996), Caroline Jones traced an evolution where the artist’s studio as a locus of artistic isolation, inhabited by the existentialist painter-heroes of abstract expressionism, gives way to the quasi-industrial and «dehumanized» workplaces of Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. Later accounts outline a new realm of "post-studio» or «post-production» activity. Yet a very different conception of artistic labor and its relation to technology emerges in early video art, where a number of works foreground the idea of a studio «inside the machine», literally displaced to the «unknown» realm of live electronic modulation. At this point artistic labor is no longer associated with mass production, but with emerging postindustrial accounts of labour as invention, and new conceptions of human/technical collectivity. Such works are instances of the autobiography of video: analog video’s exploration of new modes of technical/social memory and alternative social ontologies.
Ina Blom is a professor at the Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo and Wigeland visiting professor at the Dept. of Art History, the University of Chicago. Her field of specialty is modernism/avant-garde studies and contemporary art with a particular focus on the relationship between art, technology and media. Recent publications include On the Style Site. Art, Sociality and Media Culture (New York: Sternberg Press, 2007/2009) and Raoul Hausmann et les avantgardes, (Paris: Les presses du reel 2015, edited with Timothy O. Benson and Hanne Bergius). The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology is forthcoming from Sternberg Press, in 2016, along with the edited volume Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social (Amsterdam University Press).
Dates & times
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| 27 Apr 2016 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
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