本影音創作以筆者父親逝世的自身經驗為發想，創作動機從解決自我內在的焦慮感出發，欲以第三人稱的影像視角陳述從喪父至今，個人主體所感知到的自我認同轉折，以及一路走來所經歷的連續性心境變化。希冀可透過此實驗性創作表達出筆者最純粹的感受，以及帶給有相似經驗的觀者一種力量。 創作作品形式以三段實驗性質影像短片呈現，由演員肢體語言表演內心心境為主，輔以意境式的大自然場景和動物鏡頭，以編導式影像的建構與重演等方式，傳達三階段式的抽象心境畫面。公開放映時，依三段實驗影片的特色與展場空間，設計出適合的錄像藝術放映模式，輔以平面式編導攝影作品和展場敘事之營造，意圖使觀者完整感受到筆者一路從情感上的「腐朽」，過渡到「混沌」的自我掙扎，最後則是生命旅程「重生」的敘事過程。 從兩次公開放映的展演成果出發，多數觀者雖可明確接收到創作主題，但仍偏好事前以文字解說情境的敘事脈絡，影像的「敘事之道」在此作品尚無法獨立存在。另，展演空間與放映模式的互動，會影響觀者對創作作品的詮釋與情緒投射，故作品在後製剪接階段，即需依據展場敘事做出適當的調整。最後根據觀者訪談與問卷調查，檢視本創作成品的放映成效與製作檢討，希冀能帶給後續創作者相關的創作建議。 / This presentation is based on the author’s own experience, trying to solve the inherent anxiety as creative motivation and image a statement from the perspective of the third person who has lost her father, expressing individual subjects of perceived self-identity transition and the continuity of mood changes experienced along the way. This presentation is created to express the purest feelings of author, and hope to bring a power to the audience who have similar experiences through seeing this presentation. This presentation is composed by three experimental films, which presented by an actor performing body language to stand for one’s inside heart with Fabricated Photography, and supplemented by nature scenes and animals’ lenses to reconstruct and convey three-stage manner formula and abstract mood scene. When it comes to public performance, this presentation is designed to use video arts mode according to the characteristics of the exhibition space and three films, combined with works of Fabricated Photography and the narrative of the exhibition, with the intention that the audience can feel the narrative way as the author, starting from the emotional “rottenness” stage to the self struggle transition “chaos”, finally coming to the process “rebirth” of life’s journey. From the results of two public performances, the majority of the audience still prefer to narrative contexts by words rather than images although they can clearly receive the creative theme from three experimental films. “Another way of telling "of images doesn’t work independently in this presentation as imagined. Also, the interaction of exhibition space and videos mode will affect the audience the interpretation and emotional projection to the films, thus the films need to make appropriate adjustments based on the exhibition narrative in post- production editing stage. Finally, according to interviews and questionnaires of the audience, it shows the effectiveness and production review of this presentation, hoping to provide relevant suggestions for subsequent creators of this similar theme.

Ce travail vise à questionner les outils méthodologiques et les fondations théoriques de l’activité de restauration afin de les appliquer à un corpus d’œuvres souvent laissé aux marges des discours de ce champ disciplinaire : le film d’artiste et le film expérimental. On se focalisera sur les années 1960-1980 pour traiter, entre autres, du travail de Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits. Conçu et organisé comme un dialogue possible entre les exigences de systématisation théorique et les spécificités des œuvres, ce travail défend une méthodologie ouverte et dynamique, à l’instar des objets considérés. Dans le parcours esquissé, qui s’appuie sur des recherches en archives, on traitera de questions de reconstruction textuelle (à partir de la philologie d’auteur), de la performance et de l’installation, de l’intervention sur la matière des œuvres (en problématisant les positions du théoricien de la restauration Cesare Brandi), ou encore de l’obsolescence technologique. En mobilisant des concepts issus de champs différents mais qu’on aimerait considérer ici comme complémentaires (histoire de l’art, esthétique, histoire technique du film), cette recherche tente de décrire l’activité herméneutique sous-jacente à toute entreprise de restauration. C’est à partir de cette hypothèse des liens entre théorie et pratique que l’on envisagera les enjeux spécifiques qui accompagnent la transmission des objets filmiques. / This dissertation aims to question the methodological tools and theoretical foundations of the practice of restoration in order to apply them to a body of work often left at the margins of this disciplinary field: experimental and artists’ film. Focusing on the years 1960-1980, it will examine works by Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, and Paul Sharits, among others. Conceived and organized as a possible dialogue between theoretical assessment and the practical necessities of specific works, this research defends an open and dynamic methodology of restoration much like the objects herein considered. Through archival research, this dissertation will confront issues of textual reconstruction (starting from literary philology), performance and installation, scholarly debates concerning the materiality of artworks (problematizing the positions of restoration theorist Cesare Brandi), and the question of technological obsolescence. Mobilizing concepts from different fields considered as complementary (art history, aesthetics, the technological history of film), this dissertation seeks to describe the hermeneutical activity underlying any restoration process. It is starting from this hypothesis, which links theory and practice, that it will consider the specific issues accompanying the life of filmic objects. / Il lavoro si propone di mettere in discussione gli strumenti metodologici e le basi teoriche dell’attività di restauro, al fine di volgersi a un corpus spesso considerato come marginale nella letteratura scientifica inerente alla disciplina: il film d’artista e sperimentale. Ci si concentrerà in particolare sugli anni 1960-1980 per analizzare, tra gli altri, la produzione di Bruce Conner, Carolee Schneemann, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits. La tesi, concepita e costruita come un possibile dialogo tra l’esigenza di sistematizzazione teorica e le caratteristiche specifiche delle opere, promuove una metodologia aperta e dinamica, adattandosi dunque agli oggetti considerati. In un percorso che si vuole teorico, ma ugualmente frutto di ricerche in archivio, si tratteranno problemi di ricostruzione testuale (basandosi sulla filologia d’autore), questioni riguardanti la performance e l’installazione, interventi sulla materia delle opere (sulla scorta di una rilettura critica della Teoria del restauro di Cesare Brandi), o ancora il problema dell’obsolescenza tecnologica. La ricerca tende a includere e adattare concetti provenienti da diverse discipline (storia dell’arte, estetica, storia tecnologica del film, qui considerate come complementari), per poter infine descrivere l’attività di restauro come operazione ermeneutica. Muovendo da un’ipotesi di lavoro che unisce teoria e pratica, la ricerca affronta i problemi specifici relativi alla “trasmissione al futuro” delle opere filmiche.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

Digital art installation is the result of informatic materials entering gallery spaces and challenging the establishment of media forms. This thesis contends that the open, recursive and recombinatory process of looking at digital installation is in fact the result of noisy relations between information and the spatial temporal contexts of the art gallery. In order to focus on the processes of informatic materials within gallery spaces, this thesis identifies four key modulations of noise and materiality ? emergence, feedback, entropy and delay. I demonstrate how these impact on a range of recent digital installations by Australian and New Zealand artists. The lens of digital materiality shifts from an informational context into that of art history where it is found to highlight the systemic relationality of the installation. The thesis opens with a consideration of histories of media-specificity, and argues for a necessary separation of our concepts of media and materiality. This context provides a set of tools by which the remainder of the thesis investigates a range of digital material flows that are not tied to fixed media definitions. I draw on a range of theorists including Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Claude Shannon and Jack Burnham to further locate these material flows within two strands: experimental sound and information theory. This discussion forms the basis of the thesis? re-appraisal of media distinctions and highlights the complex relationship of informational materials to both sonic and visual histories. The second half of the thesis undertakes an appraisal of emergence, feedback, entropy and delay in specific works and suggests dimensionality, movement and duration as key determinants of the digital installation. These chapters demonstrate that what is at stake in digital installation is the viewer?s implicit role in the shifting relationships of digital materiality. Overall, this thesis presents a framework for emergent materiality in digital installation. I develop a theory of emergent materiality as a process specific to digital installation, and argue that digital installation is in fact a subject-forming assemblage of information-noise in which relations of dimensionality, movement and duration coalesce without cohering. And, within which gallery spaces begin to get noisy.

EXPRMNTL fut probablement la plus importante manifestation jamais consacrée au cinéma expérimental. Conçu et organisé par Jacques Ledoux et la Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, le festival de Knokke / Bruxelles, qui ne connut que cinq éditions (1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1974) jouit aujourd'hui d'un statut mythique. Cette initiative singulière et inclassable fut bien davantage qu'un simple festival de cinéma : un point de rencontre pour la création d'avant-garde et la pensée contemporaine, un événement placé sous le signe de l'imprévu, du désir et de la contestation, y compris celle du festival même. En somme : une manifestation à ce point cohérente avec son objet qu'elle fut en elle-même une expérience. Cette recherche retrace l'histoire des cinq éditions du festival, de sa naissance à sa disparition. Elle se fonde sur les archives de la manifestation, jusqu'ici inexplorées, sur les comptes-rendus parus dans la presse de l'époque et sur de nombreux entretiens avec des acteurs et témoins. / EXPRMNTL was probably the most important event ever devoted to experimental cinema. Designed and organized by Jacques Ledoux and the Royal Belgian Film Archives, the festival of Knokke / Brussels, which only had five editions (1949, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1974) now enjoys a mythical status. This unique and unclassifiable initiative was more than just a film festival: a meeting point for avant-garde culture and contemporary thinking, an event placed under the sign of the unexpected, desire and protest, including that of the festival itself. In short: an event so consistent with its object that it was in itself an experience. This research traces the history of the five editions of the festival. It is based on the hitherto unexplored archives of the event, the reports published in the press at the time and many interviews with protagonists and witnesses.

This diploma thesis deals with various possible ways in which the formalized expression of emotions that is characteristic of the melodramatic mode can be reinterpreted in the context of experimental cinema, with the work of the director Werner Schroeter being used as a main (but not exclusive) example. The main argument is based on two interrelated ideas. First, the melodramatic mode as a genre-bending category offers a wide repertory of stylistic features designed to express extreme emotional states or situations which can be encompassed by the term "melodramatic excess". This type of excess manifests itself most visibly in moments of intense passion when the plot breaks down and freezes in a static or symbolic arrangement, either through close-up or tableau vivant. All attention is thereby focused on the heroes' gestures and poses which express their emotional state face to face with an intense situation for which they cannot yet find an adequate response. Second, certain experimental films manage to transform the melodramatic excess through "expressive and performative operations" with filmic space, time and bodies, turning the exterior representation of emotions into the immanent expression of affects. In this case, affect is understood as a certain variation of emotions which demonstrates the...