http://artintelligence.wordpress.com thinking about contemporary art Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://artintelligence.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/eija-lisa-ahtila-narratives-of-self/#comment-4 charlie walker Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:37:11 +0000 http://artintelligence.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/eija-lisa-ahtila-narratives-of-self/#comment-4 Yes I particularly like the last paragraph - that feeling that video art can have narrative but perhaps it is more powerful for being unfinished or at least unconcluded. The feeling that multi-screens can allow people to break into the timeline of cinema and fragment it, giving the opportunity for the viewer to enter the work without it being at a conventional "start" or in a conventional "seat" makes a very good distinction for me between conventional cinema and video art. Yes I particularly like the last paragraph - that feeling that video art can have narrative but perhaps it is more powerful for being unfinished or at least unconcluded. The feeling that multi-screens can allow people to break into the timeline of cinema and fragment it, giving the opportunity for the viewer to enter the work without it being at a conventional “start” or in a conventional “seat” makes a very good distinction for me between conventional cinema and video art.

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