June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
6h 49m
English
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10The Assemblage Gaze
Premise: This chapter considers art and media design in relation to the assemblage gaze, meaning the reflexive view on the world that emerges from the modular combination of media forms.
Figure 10.1 Bruce Nauman, Live-Taped Video Corridor (1970). Medium: wallboard, video camera, two video monitors, video recording, and video playback device.1
The assemblage gaze, as I define it, is not specific to one medium, but rather flows across all media. It does not need to be time-based as it can be at play in still images—particularly composites. The assemblage gaze makes evident that human perception is not ...