This volume chronicles the visual art and writings of pioneering video artist Frank Gillette. Revisiting his work from the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s to his current practice, this book traces Gillette’s incorporation of the natural world into new media technologies. Surveying the oeuvre of this seminal artist, the reader is offered an insight into how technology erupted and continues to intersect with sense perception, and visual thinking. Axis of Observation I: Frank Gillette includes essays written by Suzanne Anker, Sabine Flach, Taney Roniger, David Ross, and Roy Skodnick, together with a facsimile of Gillette’s first publication Between Paradigms: The Mood and its Purpose (1973).
This volume chronicles the visual art and writings of pioneering video artist Frank Gillette. Revisiting his work from the late ‘60’s and ‘70’s to his current practice, this book traces Gillette’s incorporation of the natural world into new media technologies.
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Frank Gillette and The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible |
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"That poignant sense of the real whole": Frank Gillette's Epistemology of Video |
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The Colliding Garden: Intercepting Nature |
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Towards an Epiphany of the Whole: Agon and Ambiguity in Frank Gillette's Digital Images |
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Between Paradigms: The Mood and its Purpose |
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Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts in New York since 2005.
Sabine Flach is Professor of Modern of Contemporary Art at the University of Graz, Austria, where she is also Chair of the Art History Institute. In addition, she is member of the Faculty at the School of Visual Arts, New York City. She studied art history, theory of literature, philosophy and humanities in Marburg, Perugia, Kassel, and Berlin
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