The Moving Image as Public Art

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 spacehow 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.

Focuses on moving image-based public art that is an increasingly significant presence in cities around the world Charts the moving image's entrance into and evolution within the field of public art through an exploration of its encounters with passersby and the situations it generates within the city Argues that these encounters are not mere distractions but can prompt shared experiences and dialogue among strangers

Auteur

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.

Résumé
"This book provides an elaborate analysis ... . Dell'Aria's book offers an important insight into the production, preservation, and reception of moving images as public art. The study is rich and well-documented, examining significant artworks and provides an important contribution to a topic ... . This book is important both for scholars working in film and media studies and those in contemporary art, and would be of great use to any reader curious about moving images in public spaces." (Natasha Nedelkova, The Garage Journal, November 30, 2021)

Contenu

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.