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Categories: Video
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
E.A.T. – Experiments in Art and Technology »Children and Communication (Projekt)«
Robert Rauschenberg «Revolver» Stan VanDerBeek »Poemfield No. 7: (Computer Art Series No. 7)« Günther Uecker »TV 1963« Lucinda Childs «Vehicle»
Joan Jonas
«Vertical Roll»
In this well-known early tape, Jonas manipulates the grammar of the camera to create the sense of grossly disturbed physical space. This space functions as a metaphor for the unstable identity of the costumed and masked female figure roaming the screen, negotiating the rolling barrier of the screen's bottom edge. «[Making] use of a jarring rhythmic technique to develop a sense of fragmentation, ‹Vertical Roll› uses a common television set malfunction of the same name to establish a constantly shifting stage for the actions that relate both to the nature of the image and to the artist's projected psychological state.»
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