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Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

Edited by Lewis Johnson

To Be Published September 1st 2013 by Routledge – 264 pages

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

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Description

This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and trans-cultural difference; art, space and place; new media; fantasy and identity; and the movement across and the transgression of the proprieties of boundaries and borders. The book invites the reader to read across the collection, noting differences or making connections between media and forms and between audiences, critical traditions and practitioners, with a view to developing a more informed understanding of visual culture and its modalities of mobility and fantasy as encouraged by dominant, emergent, and radical forms of visual practice.

Reviews

"Twenty-first century visual culture is as migrant as the people whose lives it weaves together, and who weave their lives from it. This new mobility is not just geographic, however: it inhabits the very idea of an image, the fantasy of picturing, the fantasy of mobility itself. Lewis Johnson's collection demands a new mindset for the study of visual culture." - Sean Cubitt, University of Southampton, UK

Contents

Introduction: Mobility and fantasy in visual culture: Image, non-image space and trajectories of the look Lewis Johnson Part 1: Still Images 1.From Place to Place: Traces of Transumption in Contemporary Visual Art Stephen Bann 2. "My travailous history": Gentile Bellini’s Turkish Drawings as Mobile Fantasies Wibke Joswig 3. Cross-Cultural Encounters: Mores and Dress in the Romanian Principalities as Seen through the Eyes of Western European Travellers Sanda Miller 4. Jean-Léon Gérôme, César, and the Limits of Painting Gülru Çakmak 5. The Futurist Myth of Accelerated Subjectivity: Speed in Umberto Boccioni’s Works Ekin Pinar Part 2: Moving Images 6. The Lure of China: Chinese-ness as Mobile Capital in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Esther Wang 7. Mobile Fantasy: Miyazaki's Transnational Magic Hiu M. Chan 8. Desire-Image Zafer Aracagök 9. Praxis of Potentiality: A Consideration of Spatial Disappearance Michael Lent Part 3: Interactive Images 10. Visual culture(s) of Mobile Computing: Urban Screens, Urban Games and the Art of Critical Engagement Natascha Adamowsky 11. To Appear or Disappear on the Net? Gizem Karakaş 12. Fantasy, Mental Mobility and Imaginary Visual Culture: Role Play Games and LARP Secondary Worlds Anna Sara D'Aversa 13. Corporeal Experience in Virtual Reality Merve Kurt 14. Imagining Identity: Visuality and Image Production in Transcultural Space Christian Ritter 15. Mapping Orbit Lisa Parks Part 4: Boundaries, Borders, Limits and Mobility 16. The Artist as Spy: Artistic Mobility and the Power of the Image Ülrike Boskamp 17. This Land Your Land: Art and Interventions in Brazil Ines Linke 18. On Botany Carcinoma, xurban_collective (Güven İncirlioğlu and Hakan Topal) 19. Mapping the Fantasmagori 　Nermin Saybaşılı 20. The Notion of Mobility in Identity Discourses: Spatializing the Other as a Fantasy of Ethnicity in relation to German-Turkish Contemporary Art Başak Kaptan 21. Of Borders and the Limits of Visual Technologies Nana Adusei-Poku Part 5: Theorising Mobility and Fantasy 22. The Abyme of the Shallow: The Function of Fantasy within the Structure of Mise-en-Abyme in the Film "The Swimming Pool" Defne Tüzün 23. Hearing Our Pathway: A Sensuous Walk Liliana Coutinho 24. The Manifestation of Two Limits in Identification Regarding Kutluğ Ataman’s Video-Installations Mehmet Şiray 25. A Perspective on the Genealogy of Digital Light Victor Burgin

Author Bio

Lewis Johnson is Associate Professor of History and Theory of Art and Visual Culture at Bahçesehir University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Photography and Video, Istanbul, Turkey.

Name: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Lewis Johnson. This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues...
Categories: Media Studies, Visual Culture, Contemporary Art, New Media, Film Studies, Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics, Regional Art, Theory of Art, Media Communication