Boris Groys: Thinking in Loop: Three Videos on Iconoclasm, Ritual and Immortality / Drei Videos über das Ikonoklastische, Rituelle und Unsterbliche (German/English)

Ed. ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Peter Weibel, foreword by Peter Weibel

ISBN 10: 3775723374 / ISBN 13: 9783775723374

Published by Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart, 2009

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Z : DVD-Video mit 68-seitigem Begleitheft / DVD-video with booklet
- On this DVD in NTSC and PAL mode, art expert and philosopher Boris Groys has assembled video sequences on the topic of the semantic gap. The theme of these recordings is the video as medium: the use of the image in video, the analogy between video and essay, the difference between the private and public use of videos, and the endless loop as a contemporary form of the ritual. - Der Medientheoretiker und Philosoph Boris Groys hat auf dieser zweiseitig beschriebenen DVD drei Videoessays über Ikonoklasmus, Ritual und Unsterblichkeit versammelt. Jedes dieser Videos kombiniert einen vom Autor geschriebenen und gesprochenen Essay mit einer Collage ausgewählter historischer wie zeitgenössischer Filmausschnitte.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boris Groys: Thinking in Loop: Three Videos on Iconoclasm, Ritual and Immortality / Drei Videos über das Ikonoklastische, Rituelle und Unsterbliche (German/English)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: Multiple languages
• ISBN 10: 3775723374
• ISBN 13: 9783775723374
• Binding: Hörbuch (DVD)
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dimensions: 14W x 19H x 0D centimeters 14 centimeters width by 19 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Film
  • Video
  • Videokunst

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Synopsis

The topic of these videos by art historian and philosopher Boris Groys is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the difference between private and public use of the video, the video running in loop as a contemporary form of ritual. The film footage is not used here as a mere illustration to make the text more comprehensible, or to make certain theoretical positions more evident. Rather, these video lectures thematize the gap between what we hear and what we see, and reflect on the relationship between image and word in our media-driven world.
Boris Groys, Global Professor at New York University, is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist and an internationally acclaimed expert on late-Soviet Postmodern art and literature, as well as on the Russian avant-garde. Dr. Groys' writing engages the wildly disparate traditions of French Poststructuralism and Modern Russian philosophy.