Overview
- Focuses on moving image-based public art that is an increasingly significant presence in cities around the world
- Charts the moving image’s entrance into and evolution within the field of public art through an exploration of its encounters with passersby and the situations it generates within the city
- Argues that these encounters are not mere distractions but can prompt shared experiences and dialogue among strangers
Part of the book series: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image (EFAMI)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments of enchantment that can renew, intensify, or challenge our everyday engagement with public space and each other. These artworks also offer frameworks for understanding how moving images operate in public space—how they move viewers and reconfigure the site of the screen. Each chapter explores a mode of address that examines how artists and curators leverage the moving image’s attentional power to engage audiences, create spaces, make place, and challenge assumptions. This book also examines the difficulties and compromises that arise when using urban screens for public art.
Reviews
- Pat Naldi, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
“Annie Dell’Aria offers a timely and illuminating taxonomy of the proliferating sites, aims, and functions of the moving image in public spaces. Moving beyond familiar critiques of spectacle and capital, Dell’Aria pays careful attention to the ways artists, institutions, and communities negotiate the complex goals and utility of art in the public sphere. In doing so, she prompts us to rethink our continually evolving relationship to the moving image.”—Gregory Zinman, author of Making Images Move: Handmade Film and the Other Arts
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Annie Dell’Aria is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. Her writings have appeared in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), Public Art Dialogue, and other venues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Moving Image as Public Art
Book Subtitle: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment
Authors: Annie Dell'Aria
Series Title: Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65904-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65903-5Published: 09 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65906-6Published: 09 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65904-2Published: 08 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2523-7527
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7535
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 291
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour
Topics: Experimental Film, Arts