Full Description
Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment.
Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. Giuliana Bruno explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media.
To explain our fascination with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoanalysis, environmental philosophy, architecture, the history of science, visual art, and moving image culture to see how projective mechanisms and their environments have developed over time. She reveals how atmosphere is formed and mediated, how it can change, and what projection can do to modify a site. In so doing, she gives new life to the alchemic possibilities of transformative projective atmospheres. Showing how their "environmentality" produces sites of exchange and relationality, this book binds art to the ecology of atmosphere.
Contents
Projection and Atmosphere: An Introduction, in Medias Res
The Cultural Atmosphere of Projection
1 The Ambiance of Projection: An Environmental Archaeology of Mediality
2 Sites of Transmission: Psychic Transformation and Relationality
3 Atmospheres of Transduction: Relatedness and Sympathy
Environmentality: The Art of Projection
4 Projective Climates in Art: The Screen as Environmental Medium
5 Alchemic Milieus: Diana Thater's Phantasmagoric Habitats
6 The Nature of Scale: Jesper Just's Mareoramic Environments
7 The Thickness of Projection: Cristina Iglesias's Weathered Screen Casts
8 Elemental Empathy: Chantal Akerman's Psychic Atmospheres
9 Atmospheric Screening: Rosa Barba and Performative Projection
10 Fluid Ecology: Giorgio Andreotta Calò and Liquid Screens
11 Environmental Projection: Robert Irwin and Nebular Atmospheres
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
