Site specificity in the age of intermediality (with thanks to Michael Snow). (1st October 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Marchessault, Janine
• Is Part Of: Moving image review & art journal. Volume 2:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 150
• Page End: 159
• Publication Date: 2013-10-01
• Subjects: Motion pictures -- Periodicals; Film installations (Art) -- Periodicals; Video installations (Art) -- Periodicals; Documentary films -- Periodicals; 791.43
• DOI: 10.1386/miraj.2.2.150_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2045-6298

Abstract

This article addresses the materialist screen works of Canadian artist Michael Snow. It argues that Snow's lifelong experimentations with different media technologies have always encompassed a rigorous and precise understanding of the phenomenology of the different viewing situations in which his works are seen. Two aspects of Snow's practice are singled out as inherently connected: medium specificity and audiency. Snow's artworks provide us with unique opportunities to grasp the complexities of changing forms of intermediality and spectatorship at a time when media are more fluid and ephemeral than ever before.