The advanced stage of capitalism that we now live in has brought many changes to the way that society consumes and produces. One of the biggest shifts to the modern economy was the use of visual culture to distract, pacify, and exert power over the masses; a cultural change French theorist Guy Debord named the Society of the Spectacle. As a result, Debord and the Situationist International developed a movement of resistance to reclaim the territories of everyday life being eroded by the spectacle through separation and alienation. Since the term was coined the use of visual culture has accelerated and become even more pervasive in the postmodern world which led Jean Baudrillard to claim that the real has been replaced by simulation and hyperreality. This thesis explores this cultural shift to determine whether the practices of resistance theorized by Debord and the Situationists are still relevant as the reach of postmodernism increases. Link to associated video file: https://vimeo.com/64727252

The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition Momentary Lapses, held at Tipton Gallery, February 25-March 8, 2019. The mixed media works and video examine the intersections between digital, somatic and societal decay through the mediation of the digital image by physical anthropogenic efforts. Themes in the work include glitch art and theory, entropy, memory, decay, and loss. Contemporary American society’s desensitization associated with the oversaturation of digital imagery is discussed, as well as Guy Debord’s theory of the Spectacle, and the artistic practices of Kurt Schwitters and Robert Rauschenberg.

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Cette version de la thèse a été tronquée des éléments de composition originale. Une version plus complète est disponible en ligne pour les membres de la communauté de l’Université de Montréal et peut aussi être consultée dans une des bibliothèques UdeM. / La vidéomusique présente un riche terrain d'expérimentations pour le compositeur. Elle prend la forme d'un réseau où coexistent la musique, les images en mouvement et un langage qui épouse un propos plus poétique que prosaïque. La vidéomusique porte un nouveau regard sur les relations entre le son et l'image et, forte de cette analyse, jette les bases d'une nouvelle expression esthétique. Le présent ouvrage propose une typologie des relations son/image et présente la démarche créative de l'autrice par l'étude de trois vidéomusiques dans le contexte de leur création. Au fil des analyses, notre attention se portera sur trois axes : 1) la typologie des relations son/image comme outil servant à la fois à l'analyse et à la composition; 2) le travail simultané du son et de l'image; 3) la création d'une expérience esthétique sensible et émotive, basée sur le mouvement de matériaux captés dans l'environnement naturel. / Videomusic presents a rich field of experimentation to the composer. It takes the form of a network where music, moving images and a language closer to poetry than prose coexist. It explores the ways in which sound and image can be related and what kind of expression these relationships allow. This work proposes a typology of sound/image relations and presents the author's creative process through the study of three videomusic works and the context in which they were created. In the course of the analyses, our attention will focus on three axes: 1) the typology of sound/image relations as a tool for both analysis and composition; 2) the simultaneous work on sound and image; 3) the creation of an aesthetic experience that evokes emotions and meaning by drawing on the movement of materials captured in the natural environment.

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Ce mémoire de maîtrise porte sur l’animation des images fixes dans le film Me and You and Everyone we Know réalisé en 2005 par Miranda July, et tout particulièrement sur les pratiques artistiques de la protagoniste Christine Jeperson, qui est artiste vidéaste. L’objet de cette étude se fonde sur les matériaux utilisés par l’artiste-protagoniste elle-même, et vise en premier la photographie, puisqu’elle travaille toujours à partir de photos amateur, de clichés, d’images banales, qu’elle tente d’animer par le biais de la vidéo et de leur mise en récit. Ces deux dispositifs d’animation, qui à leur façon redonnent du temps et du mouvement aux images, réalisent un déplacement de valeur en en faisant de l’art et déploient du même coup un espace propre à une certaine expérience esthétique du spectateur, car c’est dans son imaginaire que peut véritablement se produire l’animation de ces images. Ainsi, dans ce mémoire, je tenterai tout à la fois de me concentrer sur ce détail du film que sont les œuvres de Christine, mais en cherchant à les mettre en relation avec d’autres moments du film, avec ce qui semble être les motifs privilégiés de la pratique de Miranda July, de même qu’avec d’autres moments de l’histoire de l’art, afin d’en historiciser la démarche. Ce travail servira donc à éclairer une pratique d’images contemporaine singulière, à la croisée entre photographie, vidéo et film. / This Master’s thesis deals with the animation of still images in Miranda July’s 2005 film, Me and You and Everyone we Know. More specifically, it analyses the artistic practices of Christine Jeperson, a video artist who is the main character of the film. This study focuses on the materials utilized by the artist-protagonist and looks at her particular use of photography: her video works all revolve around amateur photographs, clichés, banal images, that she animates via the remediation of video and "narrativization" ("mise en récit"). These two principles of animation, that give time and motion to the still images she uses, also produce a displacement of value by turning these images into art and, by the same token, open a specific space i.e. the aesthetic experience of the spectator, for it is in his or her imaginary, in the end, that this animation is produced. Thus, in this study, I wish to look at these “details” within the films — the video works of Christine — whilst seeking to show the relations they entertain with other elements of the film, with Miranda July’s body of works, as well as with other moments in art history that relate to this animation apparatus, in order to historicize the practices of Christine / July. This Master’s Thesis wishes to illuminate a specific kind of contemporary visual practice, at the intersection of photography, video and film.

Ayant comme point de départ les premières expérimentations de Nam June Paik avec les téléviseurs au début des années 1960, cette étude suit l’évolution historique de l’installation vidéo en parcourant cinq décennies de création. La problématique de l’espace, fil conducteur de cette recherche, nous amène d’abord à la constitution d’une typologie. Fruit de l’étude de l’évolution des formes principales de l’installation vidéo, cette classification a pour objet l’œuvre sous sa forme aboutie, c’est-à-dire installée. Néanmoins, cet état n’est que le résultat final d’un long processus. Divisée en quatre étapes, l’étude de la mise en espace de l’œuvre soulève des questions cruciales liées à l’acquisition, l’exposition et la conservation de l’installation vidéo. Une fois que l’œuvre est installée, elle s’articule autour d’un espace-temps virtuel, celui de l’image vidéographique, et d’un espace-temps réel, celui du dispositif plastique, analysés dans la troisième et dernière partie. Cette étude met l’accent sur la dimension historique de l’installation vidéo tout en la contextualisant au sein de l’histoire de l’art du vingtième siècle. / Having as a starting point Nam June Paik’s experimentations with televisions in the early 1960s, this essay traces the history of the video installation spanning five decades. The question of space is the basic thread of the analysis. It has led to the constitution of a typology that examines the evolution of the main forms of the video installation. This classification focuses on the artwork that is already installed. However, this state is the outcome of a complicated procedure. Divided into four steps and thoroughly examined, this process raises some crucial questions concerning the acquisition, the exposition and the conservation of the video installation. When installed, the artwork acquires two spatiotemporal dimensions, namely the virtual space and time of the video image and the real space and time of the installation, both analysed in the third chapter. This essay stresses the historical aspect of the video installation by situating it within the broader context of the 20th century history of art.

La présente thèse cartographie et condense l'histoire des relations entre l'art et la télévision au cours du demi-siècle environ durant lequel la télévision maintint sa position de média de masse par excellence dans la société, des années 1950 au tournant du millénaire, jusqu'à la phase de vaporisation des médias récemment apportée par la profusion des technologies numériques et d'Internet. La centaine d'artistes étudiés appartient à différentes générations, des pionniers des années 1960 tels que Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol et divers collectifs de la guerilla television aux figures postmodernistes telles que Dara Birnbaum et General Idea, des artistes issus des années 1990 comme Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski et Matthieu Laurette aux figures émergées au XXIe siècle comme Keren Cytter, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin et les Yes Men.Les travaux abordés sont des vidéos, installations, performances, interventions et programmes télévisés conçus comme des formes de résistance, d'appropriation et de parodie de la télévision grand public, qui exposent les mécanismes par lesquels le média de masse influence notre perception de la réalité et de nous-mêmes. Les genres et les formats télévisuels les plus populaires sont ciblés : les informations, publicités, soap operas, talk-shows, émissions pour enfants, vidéoclips, téléréalité, divertissements éducatifs et séries télévisées. En permettant de « voir à distance », la télévision produit chez le spectateur un sentiment étrange de déplacement physique. Les travaux étudiés mettent en évidence et tentent de surmonter cette séparation entre les corps factuels et télévisés, qui est aussi une séparation entre réalité et représentation. / The present study maps and condenses the history of the relationships between art and television during the rough half century in which television maintained its position as society’s quintessential mass medium, from the 1950s to the turn of the millennium, through to the phase of vaporization of media recently brought by the profusion of digital technologies and the Internet. The close to one hundred artists discussed belong to different generations, from 1960s pioneers such as Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol and various guerrilla television collectives to postmodernist figures such as Dara Birnbaum and General Idea, from artists emerged in the 1990s such as Phil Collins, Christian Jankowski, and Matthieu Laurette up to figures emerged in in this early XXI century such as Keren Cytter, Hito Steyerl, Ryan Trecartin, and the Yes Men.The works discussed are videos, installations, performances, interventions and television programs conceived as forms of resistance, appropriation and parody of mainstream television, that expose the mechanisms through which the mass medium influences our perception of both reality and ourselves. To be targeted are the most popular television genres and formats including news, commercials, soap operas, talk shows, children's programs, music videos, reality shows, edutainment, and TV series. By allowing to “see at distance,” television produces in the viewer an uncanny feeling of physical displacement. What the works discussed highlight and try to overcome, is that split between factual and televised bodies, that is also a split between reality and representation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:17:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pablo Souza de Villavicencio.pdf: 2495837 bytes, checksum: 94b2ead88ea96de058248c6bc50793c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-25 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / By focusing on montage or editing that can characterize a method of temporal construction, this study confronts two medias that operate moving images, which suggests different ways of thinking about time. We will discuss the issue of time in the cinema and on video through a brief discrimination between the two languages and, as an example, we will analyze editing and images and sounds on the video Trovoada, in an effort to grasp the temporalities that are characteristic of video. Next, for purposes of comparison, we will analyze the movie Nick s movie (or Lightning Over Water), in which there is a dialogue between cinema and video. Before the digital age, the nature of the supports used in the cinema and in video was different. We understand that both are based in distinct procedures in producing images in movement and generate specific languages that show different temporalities. This difference can be understood as the matrix of the characteristics of the languages. Cinema was the first medium to operate moving images and, by doing this, it opened up broader questioning regarding time, insofar as it moves from a static image to an image that has a specific duration. Video, on the other hand, comes about as an electronic image in which there is effectively an inscription of time in the support itself, and which offers new editing techniques and procedures. We have considered, as a hypothesis, that there are different kinds of times and montages in cinema and video and that the two languages are differentiated by more specific constructions, or that their dialogue takes place in more hybrid constructions: the times articulated in both supports are distinct from each other and blend together. The main authors who have built the theoretical basis of this research are: Arlindo Machado, Raymond Bellour, André Parente, Gene Youngblood, Philippe Dubois, Yvana Fechine, Lucrecia D Alessio Ferrara, Christine Mello and Gilles Deleuze / Com foco na montagem ou edição que pode caracterizar um modo de construção temporal, este é um estudo de confronto entre dois meios que operam imagens em movimento, o que sugere modos diferentes de pensar o tempo. Abordamos a questão do tempo no cinema e no vídeo através de uma breve discriminação entre as duas linguagens, e, como exemplo, analisamos a edição e as imagens e sons no vídeo Trovoada, a fim de apreender as temporalidades características do vídeo. Em seguida e a título de comparação, analisamos o filme Um filme para Nick, no qual há um diálogo entre cinema e vídeo. Antes da era digital, a natureza dos suportes utilizados no cinema e no vídeo era diferente. Entendemos que ambos têm origem em procedimentos distintos na produção da imagem em movimento e geram linguagens específicas que evidenciam diferentes temporalidades. Essa diferença pode ser entendida como a matriz das características das linguagens. O cinema foi o primeiro meio a operar imagens em movimento e, com isso, abriu um questionamento maior sobre o tempo, na medida em que se passa da imagem estática para a imagem que possui determinada duração. Já o vídeo surge como imagem eletrônica em que efetivamente há uma inscrição do tempo no próprio suporte, e que traz novas técnicas e procedimentos de edição. Consideramos, como hipótese, que há diferentes tipos de tempos e montagens no cinema e no vídeo e que as duas linguagens se diferenciam em construções mais específicas, ou dialogam em construções mais híbridas: os tempos articulados nos dois suportes se distinguem e se mesclam. Os principais autores que constroem a fundamentação teórica desta pesquisa são: Arlindo Machado, Raymond Bellour, André Parente, Gene Youngblood, Philippe Dubois, Yvana Fechine, Lucrécia D Alessio Ferrara, Christine Mello e Gilles Deleuze