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Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s and 1980s

Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s and 1980s Reconstructing Swiss Video Art
CHF 60.00
Author
Irene Schubiger
Date published
2009
Publisher
Zürich: SIK-ISEA / Zürich: jrp/ringier
Language
English
ISBN
ISBN 978-3-03764-054-8

Description

Foreword by Irene Schubiger, Texts by Christoph Blase: Making the ausio-visual of the 1970s visible, Sabine Breitwieser: RE-PLAY. Early media ar tin Austria: a history, Wolfgang Ernst: Time that adheres to media material. The knowledge to be gained from techno-archaeological hardware, Christiane Fricke: «We are at the heart of it». Four museum video collcections in Germany, Johannes Gfeller: The reference hardware pool of  «AktiveArchive»  at the Bern Universitiy of the Arts. A basis for a historically well-informed re-performance of media art, Christoph Lichtin: The history of video art  in Lucerne. Exhibitions, festivals, curators, artists, Joanna Phillips: The reconstruction of video art. A fine line between authorized re-performance and historically informed intepretation, René Pulver / Sibylle Omlin: Video, I see. Now. An artistic-curatorial view of the 1970s and 1980s, Jochen Saueracker: Intuition and Circuit. Re-installing Nam June Paik's video installations, Irene Schubiger: «La vidéo, je m’en balance». The first twenty year of Swiss video art: artistic verve versus the intertia of art history, Gaby Wijers: Strategies and case studies on the preservation of media art at the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Technische Dokumentation: Johannes Gfeller / Agathe Jarczyk / Joanna Phillips, Schriftliche Künstlerbefragung: Agathe Jarczyk / Joanna Phillips, Werktexte: Irene Schubiger
[published on the occasion of the exhibition and the conference at Kunstmuseum Luzern, March–April 2008]

Einzelpublikation, 20 x 26 cm, 248 p., 255 b/w Abb., paperback, CHF 60.-, Zürich: SIK-ISEA / Zürich: jrp/ringier, 2009