10. Interactive Abstractions: Between Embodied Exploration and Instrumental Control “Underneath Your Fingertips”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. FOREWORD xiii
5. PREFACE: Abstract Video Art xvii
6. 1. Introduction: On the Horizon 1
7. PART ONE. TRANSMISSION
8. 2. Film Image / Electronic Image: The Construction of Abstraction, 1960– 1990 19
9. 3. Joseph Kosuth’s The Second Investigation in Vancouver (1969): Art on TV 29
10. 4. Abstract Transmissions: Other Trajectories for Feminist Video 50
11. 5. Abstract Video 66
12. PART TWO. INTERFERENCE
13. 6. Visual Music’s Influence on Contemporary Abstraction 81
14. 7. Getting Messy: Chance and Glitch in Contemporary Video Art 98
15. 8. Delirious Architectures: Notes on Jeremy Blake, Liquid Crystal Palace, and Digital Materialism 116
16. 9. Abstract Video: net.video.abstraction 129
17. 10. Interactive Abstractions: Between Embodied Exploration and Instrumental Control “Underneath Your Fingertips” 145
18. PART THREE. RECEPTION
19. 11. Real Time, Screen Time 163
20. 12. The Spreadability of Video 176
21. 13. Spectral Projections: Color, Race, and Abstraction in the Moving Image 192
22. 14. Go with the (Unregulated) Flow: Fluidity, Abjection, and Abstraction 205
23. 15. Sine Qua Son: Considering the Sine Wave Tone in Electronic Art 222
24. MEDIOGRAPHY 237
25. BIBLIOGRAPHY 251
26. ILLUSTRATIONS 265
27. CONTRIBUTORS 269
28. INDEX 273