Unframing/Reframing in the Contemporary Visual, Performing, and Media Arts
open access | peer reviewed-
edited by
- Pietro Conte - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Cristina Baldacci - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Susanne Franco - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
Over the last two decades, the notion of the frame has been radically challenged in the visual, performing, and media arts, particularly as a consequence of the introduction of two mutually related concepts: ‘unframing’ and ‘reframing’. While the first refers to the gesture of ideally getting rid of any framing device, the second offers alternative ways to contextualise objects, acts, and images in time and space. This issue of JoLMA proposes to examine the concepts of unframing and reframing from the interdisciplinary perspective of visual art, performance, and media studies, by following both a theoretical and a practice-based approach. The entanglement of theory and practice becomes crucial when an attempt is made to introduce new epistemological standpoints.
Keywords Framing • Sequential Images • Avalanche magazine • Conversation • ChatGPT • Art • Reframing • Interpretation • Camille Henrot • Visual Culture Studies • Contemporary art • Storytelling • Artists’ magazines • Judy Chicago • Picture Thresholds • Re-framing • Virtual Reality • Art magazines • Framing in art • Art Ontology • Art theory • Hyper-enactment • AI • Augmented reality • Single Images • Fictional Worlds • Pictorial Storytelling • Training humans • Narration • Feminist art • Art of the 1960s and 1970s • Image • Grosse Fatigue • Frame • Human-machine entanglement • Re-enactment • Desktop documentary
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/01 | Published Sept. 25, 2023 | Language en, it
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