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042 $adc
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072 7 $aD$2bicssc
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100 1 $aBenthien, Claudia$4auth
700 1 $aLau, Jordis$4auth
700 1 $aMarxsen, Maraike M.$4auth
245 10 $aThe Literariness of Media Art
260 $bTaylor & Francis$c2019
300 $a1 electronic resource (330 p.)
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $a“Language can be this incredibly forceful material—there’s something about it where if you can
strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws” (Hill in Vischer
1995, 11). This arresting image by media artist Gary Hill evokes the nearly physical force of
language to hold recipients in its grip. That power seems to lie in the material of language itself,
which, with a certain rawness, may captivate or touch, pounce on, or even harm its addressee.
Hill’s choice of words is revealing: ‘rip into’ suggests not only a metaphorical emotional pull but
also the literal physicality of linguistic attack. It is no coincidence that the statement comes from
a media artist, since media artworks often use language to produce a strong sensorial stimulus.
Media artworks not only manipulate language as a material in itself, but they also manipulate the
viewer’s perceptual channels. The guises and effects of language as artistic material are the topic
of this book, The Literariness of Media Art.
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650 7 $aLiterature & literary studies$2bicssc
650 7 $aMedia studies$2bicssc
653 $aMedia Art
653 $aliterary approach
653 $alanguage
653 $aDefamiliarization
653 $aNew media art
653 $aRussian formalism
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