W stronę wirtualności Praktyki artystyczne kina współczesnego

• Main Author: Szewczyk, Matylda (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Polish
• Published: Warszawa Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk 2015
• Series: Nowa Humanistyka
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; contemporary cinema; virtuality; contemporary art; Peter Greenaway; Lynn Hershman Leeson; Mike Figgis
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

We will be following the departure of cinema 'towards virtuality' (towards new ways of creating, understanding and existence of cinema in the times of transformations of media technology) primarily from the perspective of selected artistic practices of three artists: Peter Greenaway (who often repeats the argument about the 'death' of traditional cinema and the birth of new ways of depiction), Lynn Hershman Leeson (American artist of the 'wider cinema') and Mike Figgis, who reflected on various types of cinematic image and the cinema of the digital age in his autothematic films. The authors will also discuss cinema in the wider context of cultural reflection. Questions on the 'virtualisation' of culture will require an attempt at defining the notion of 'virtuality', and a tracing of its journey through different levels of cultural discourses, as well as linking it back to the analysed works. Towards Virtuality... is a book about cinema (its creators, works and characters), steeped in technological, philosophical, scientific and, more generally, cultural transformations of modernity.