Attention and Distraction: On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art
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Attention and Distraction : On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art. / Petersen, Anne Ring.
In: RIHA Journal. Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, 07.10.2010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Attention and Distraction
T2 - On the Aesthetic Experience of Video Installation Art
AU - Petersen, Anne Ring
N1 - RIHA Journal is an Open Access Journal. All articles published in RIHA Journal undergo double blind peer review and are available free of charge. New articles are published one by one and can be subscribed to as RSS feeds. Long-term archiving is provided by the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek). Each article has its own URN (to be found in the metadata) warranting the article's persistent identifiability and accessibility in the web. Paper id:: URL: http://www.riha-journal.org/articles/2010/ring-petersen-attention-and-distraction
PY - 2010/10/7
Y1 - 2010/10/7
N2 - This article aims to examine the interrelationship between attention and distraction in the reception of video installation art, a genre which is commonly associated with "immersion" and an intensified feeling of presence in the discourses on new media art and installation art. This tends to veil the fact that the behaviour of many visitors is characterised by a certain restlessness and distraction. The article suggests that, in contradistinction to traditional disciplines of art like painting and sculpture, video installations seem to stimulate a "reception in distraction" (Walter Benjamin) that is at odds with the ideal of a reception in concentration that governs the institutions of fine art as well as aesthetic theory. It intends to demonstrate how the experience of video installation art can only be understood by recognising that the close connections between, on the one hand, video art and, on the other hand, the cultural formations of television, film and computers have fundamentally re-configured "aesthetic experience."
AB - This article aims to examine the interrelationship between attention and distraction in the reception of video installation art, a genre which is commonly associated with "immersion" and an intensified feeling of presence in the discourses on new media art and installation art. This tends to veil the fact that the behaviour of many visitors is characterised by a certain restlessness and distraction. The article suggests that, in contradistinction to traditional disciplines of art like painting and sculpture, video installations seem to stimulate a "reception in distraction" (Walter Benjamin) that is at odds with the ideal of a reception in concentration that governs the institutions of fine art as well as aesthetic theory. It intends to demonstrate how the experience of video installation art can only be understood by recognising that the close connections between, on the one hand, video art and, on the other hand, the cultural formations of television, film and computers have fundamentally re-configured "aesthetic experience."
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - videoinstallationskunst
KW - adspredthed
KW - reception
KW - kontekstbevidsthed
KW - digitale medier
KW - ubiquitous computing
KW - video installation art
KW - distraction
KW - reception
KW - context-awareness
KW - digital media
KW - ubiquitous computing
M3 - Journal article
JO - RIHA Journal
JF - RIHA Journal
SN - 2190-3328
ER -
ID: 22388819