Books
New Screen Media
Martin Rieser And Andrea Zapp (Eds) BFI/ZKM 2002
The advent of new media presents a serious challenge to our understanding of visual representation, of narrative and indeed the whole art of the moving image. New media forms are emerging in hypertext, multimedia, computer games, interactive broadcast and screen media. These are constantly redefining the relationship between story and text and between the creators of art and their audiences who are increasingly becoming the co-producers of meaning in a variety of media. This text presents the work of cultural theorists and philosophers of new media, together with the perspectives of artists experimenting with different interactive models critically examining their own practice. The book proposes the use of new critical tools for discussing new media forms, analyzing how the new stories of these media relate to issues of gender, race and identity, and exploring the different methods of artistic platforms like the Internet, media installation, CD-ROM or expanded cinema. The accompanying DVD-ROM provides a sampler of interactive work and videos by which to explore the experimental territory where the cinematic and digital arts converge.
Like (2)The Mobile Audience
Martin Rieser (Ed) Rodopi 2009
This is a book based on primary field research, its principal aims being to interrogate and explain the visual languages and critical discourses growing up around the new art and narrative forms which are adapting to mobile technologies, in particular through examining audience response. The book forms a study of these emergent uses of mobile, wearable and wire-free technologies, which have moved the audience for screen-based work out of the gallery and cinema into public spaces and geographies, with a particular focus on forms of experimental art works using narrative in its new spatialised or “locative” incarnations. This continues arguments on reception rehearsed in Rieser, M, Zapp, A, New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/ Narrative (BFI, London, 2002), but examines and contextualizes more recent and developing work founded on mobile technologies.
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