T_Visionarium: A User's Guide
Jill Bennett
Book/DVD published by ZKM/UNSW Press
This book is a comprehensive analysis
of the ground-breaking T_Visionarium media art project developed by Neil Brown,
Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter
Weibel at the iCinema Centre, Sydney, in
collaboration with ZKM, Karlsruhe. It reveals
how this immersive interactive environment
generates new insights into the workings and
consumption of televisual media, extending the
boundaries of both art and media studies.
Using contemporary theory to analyse gesture
and emotion in art and media, Jill Bennett’s
text explores the dynamics of new media
narratives, demonstrating how both TV and
media art operate in a transnarrative dimension
where media images take on their own life.
"Situating T_Visionarium in terms of wider cultural
shifts, the book is a ‘user’s guide’, both to
T_Visionarium, and to screen culture in general.
Jill Bennett’s ‘guide’ to the kinds of
discoveries possible in the complex
space created by T_Visionarium opens
up questions about what media art can
do. Drawing in particular on knowledge of
the televisual genre of forensic detection,
and of affect and gesture, Bennett traces
the lineaments of T_Visionarium, with
unpredictable and often unimaginable
results." Associate Professor Anna Gibbs, School of
Communication Arts, University of Western
Sydney
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