Full Description
The genre of the video clip has been established for more than thirty years, mainly served by the sub genres of video art and music video. This book explores processes of hybridization between music video, film, and video art by presenting current theoretical discourses and engaging them through interviews with well-known artists and directors, bringing to the surface the crucial questions of art practice. The collection discusses topics including postcolonialism, posthumanism, gender, race and class and addresses questions regarding the hybrid media structure of video, the diffusion between content and form, art and commerce as well as pop culture and counterculture. Through the diversity of the areas and interviews included, the book builds on and moves beyond earlier aesthetics-driven perspectives on music video.
Contents
Introduction by Kathrin Dreckmann and Elfi Vomberg
I MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY: THE BEGINNING OF HYBRID MEDIA
1 Music Video and Its Convergence Potential: From the Hybrid to the Permeable
Henry Keazor, Heidelberg University, Germany
2 Sound & Vision: Early Artists' Video and Music
Chris Meigh-Andrews, University of Central Lancashire, UK
3 The Process of Creating Was More Important Than the Object: Interview with Ulrike Rosenbach
II MEDIA ARCHIVES ON HYBRIDS
4 It Belongs in a Museum? Music Videos in Danish Museum Exhibitions
Mathias Bonde Korsgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark
5 "No Returns for Dislike": How Music Videos and Video Art Entered the Living Room in the 1980s
Linnea Semmerling, Düsseldorf Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI), Germany
6 An Aura with Pencil, Brushes, and Pixels: Interview with Wulf Herzogenrath,
III HYBRID IMAGINES: MEDIA AESTHETICS BETWEEN POP AND IDENTITY
7 "You Need To Calm Down"—Stardom and Cancel Culture: The Music Video as an Audiovisual Protest Poster
Elfi Vomberg, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
8 Facing the Lens of the Camera: Bodies, Self-portraiture, Portraiture, and Identity in Women Artists' Video
Laura Leuzzi, Robert Gordon University, University of Abertay, UK
9 Spirit of Creation—Between Documenting, Expressing, and Archiving: Interview with AnAkA
IV AESTHETICS OF POPULAR MEDIA HYBRIDS
10 Trans* Bowie...Trans* Prince
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University, USA
11 "Black Queen and King": Iconographies of Self-empowerment, Canon, and Pop in the Current Music Video
Kathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
12 Audiovisual Art Is About Hybridization: Interview with Barbara London
V FUTURE AESTHETICS ON HYBRID MEDIA
13 Music Video Distortion and Posthuman Technogenesis
Kristen Lillvis, St. Catherine University, USA
14 Untimely Futures and the Art of Revolutionary Life
Jami Weinstein, Linköping University, Sweden
15 Feeling Closer to the Track—The Representation of Blackness in Music Video: Interview with Modu Sesay
VI MEDIA ART HYBRIDS
16 Hold Up: Mapping the Boundaries of Music Video and Video Art
Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
17 But Still... Is It Art? Contemporary Music Video, Art (Discourse), and Authority—Revisited
Maren Butte, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
18 Time-based Media Art in Music Video—One Does Something the Other Cannot: Interview with Julia Stoschek
Biographies
Index
