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.
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Environmentality in Art and Screen Media
Product details
ISBN
9780226817477
Published
2022
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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