Touch Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media 1st Edition by Laura U Marks ISBN 0816638896 978-0816638895

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ISBN 10:0816638896

ISBN 13:978-0816638895

Author:Laura U.Marks

Proposes a revolutionary approach to the interpretation of art, film, and the digital.

In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself.

These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years—sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists.

From this emerges a materialist theory—an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks’s approach leads to an appreciation of the works’ mortal bodies: film’s volatile emulsion, video’s fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as “virtual” and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
   How can the experience of sound, color, gestures, and the feelings of arousal, anxiety, nausea, or bereavement be communicated in words? Writing about artists’ media, I must translate something about their audiovisual, sensuous materiality into words.
2. Video Haptics and Erotics
   In a 1992 video, Sadie Benning tells the story of a short-lived love affair. Despite little happening in the narrative, the video evokes a journey into erotic states of being.
3. Animal Appetites, Animal Identifications
   A BBC wildlife documentary series portrays violent animal behavior in a sensationalized, pornography-like way, raising questions about the portrayal of animals as “unnatural.”
4. “I Am Very Frightened by the Things I Film”
   This section explores documentary films and the complex power dynamics between filmmakers and their subjects, highlighting the challenges of responsibility and power in filmmaking.
5. Here’s Gazing at You
   A personal letter from the author to Ken Jacobs, reflecting on the nature of erotic experience in film, discussing their previous conversation at the Flaherty seminar.
6. Love the One You’re With: Straight Women, Gay Porn, and the Scene of Erotic Looking
   A straight woman who enjoys gay men’s nightclubs finds pleasure in voyeuristic viewing, learning to look at men without the reciprocal gaze, a form of erotic looking.
7. Loving a Disappearing Image
   Experimental films and videos are examined for their diminished visibility, often reflecting on themes like the decay of media and the loss of bodily coherence, especially in relation to diseases like AIDS.
8. The Logic of Smell
   This section discusses the development of technologies, such as DigiScents, to deliver smells in interactive media, exploring how sensory experiences can be incorporated into digital entertainment.
9. Institute Benjamenta: An Olfactory View
   Using examples from the film Institute Benjamenta, this section delves into the sensory experience of smell and how it can be represented in film.
10. J’s Smell Movie: A Shot List
    An experimental description of a “smell movie,” focusing on sensory detail and texture, specifically using the smell of Band-Aids and Bactine as part of a sensory film experience.
11. Video’s Body, Analog and Digital
    This essay examines how video art has evolved as a medium, particularly in the context of digital media and its obsolescence, contrasting the physicality of analog video with the virtual nature of digital formats.
12. How Electrons Remember
    An exploration of how digital images are deeply connected to their material processes, arguing that electrons “remember” and that this memory informs electronic imaging technology.
13. Immanence Online
    Describes online space as material, interconnected, and immanent, rather than virtual or transcendental, using low-tech artists’ websites to demonstrate this perspective.
14. Ten Years of Dreams about Art
    Reflecting on ten years of experimental media, the author examines how her unconscious mind charts developments in the scene, with dreams revealing shifts in independent media culture over the 1990s.

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