The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment - Hardcover

by Annie Dell'aria (Author)

Introduction.- Image Spaces: Liminality and the Pleasures of Spectacle.- Play Spaces: Screens as Social Interfaces.- Place Making: Public Art as Urban Development.- Place Illumination: the (Dis)Assembling Moving Image.

Back Jacket

This book maps the presence of moving images within the field of public art through encounters with passersby. It argues that far from mere distraction or spectacle, moving images can produce moments of enchantment that can renew, intensify, or challenge our everyday engagement with public space and each other. These artworks also offer frameworks for understanding how moving images operate in public space--how they move viewers and reconfigure the site of the screen. Each chapter explores a mode of address that examines how artists and curators leverage the moving image's attentional power to engage audiences, create spaces, make place, and challenge assumptions. This book also examines the difficulties and compromises that arise when using urban screens for public art.

Author Biography

Annie Dell'Aria is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA. Her writings have appeared in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ), Public Art Dialogue, and other venues.