Perceptions of a real event: tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance  and its video distribution

Emile Shemilt

Perceptions of a real event: tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video distribution

Emile Shemilt

Contemporary Art Practice

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Abstract

Italy was a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This early experimentation attracted artists from all over the world and laid the foundation for video art. However since then, early Italian video art has received only scant international exposure. Its contribution to the history of video as an art form has for too long escaped the recognition that it so unequivocally deserves.

Edited by Laura Leuzzi and Stephen Partridge, REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy aims to bring the Italian, seminal, early video experimentation back into the international spotlight and provide a a unique resource for research and study.

The volume includes seminal essays, translated for the first time into English, plus newly commissioned texts by leading scholars and artists, and a wide selection of video stills and other images.

Authors include: Renato Barilli, Maria Gloria Bicocchi, Lola Bonora, Silvia Bordini, Paolo Cardazzo, Cinzia Cremona, Sean Cubitt, Bruno Di Marino, Simonetta Fadda, Vittorio Fagone, Marco Maria Gazzano, Luciano Giaccari, Mirco Infanti, Laura Leuzzi, Sandra Lischi, Adam Lockhart, Stephen Partridge, Cosetta G. Saba, Emile Shemilt, Studio Azzurro, Valentina Valentini, Grahame Weinbren.

Foreword by Don Foresta; introduction by Stephen Partridge; the volume closes with The Chronology of Video Art in Italy (1952–1992), by Valentino Catricalà and Laura Leuzzi. Translation by Simona Manca.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	REWIND \| Italia
Subtitle of host publication	early video art in Italy: I primi anni della videoarte in Italia
Editors	Laura Leuzzi, Stephen Partridge
Place of Publication	New Barnet
Publisher	John Libbey Publishing
Pages	291-300
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9780861967216
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016
Event	Simposio REWINDItalia: Videoart in Italy 1968-1982 - MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy Duration: 19 Apr 2012 → 20 Apr 2012 http://www.rewind.ac.uk/rewind/index.php/I-eventi

Conference

Conference	Simposio REWINDItalia: Videoart in Italy 1968-1982
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Rome
Period	19/04/12 → 20/04/12
Internet address	http://www.rewind.ac.uk/rewind/index.php/I-eventi

Keywords

Video art

REWIND | British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s. (Edited Book (pp 224 130,00 words) Chapters from Sean Cubitt, Grahame Weinbren, Yvonne Spielmann, Malcolm Dickson, Stephen Partridge, Adam Lockhart, Jackie Hatfield and Emile Shemilt, with foreword by Brian Winston)
Cubitt, S. (Editor) & Partridge, S. (Editor), 2012, New Barnet, Herts.: John Libbey Publishing. 224 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book

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RewindItalia Website
Translated title of the contribution: Video art in Italy, The first two decades.Partridge, S. (Editor), Leuzzi, L. (Lead / Corresponding author), Notaro, A. & Lockhart, A. (Developer), 19 Apr 2012
Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

Material tensions: a practice-based study of the tension between the 'material' and the 'image' in digital moving image art
Shemilt, E. J. (Author), Notaro, A. (Supervisor) & Johnson, N. (Supervisor), 2010
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy

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Shemilt, E 2016, Perceptions of a real event: tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video distribution. in L Leuzzi & S Partridge (eds), REWIND | Italia: early video art in Italy: I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. John Libbey Publishing, New Barnet, pp. 291-300, Simposio REWINDItalia: Videoart in Italy 1968-1982 , Rome, Italy, 19/04/12.

Perceptions of a real event: tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video distribution. / Shemilt, Emile.
REWIND | Italia: early video art in Italy: I primi anni della videoarte in Italia. ed. / Laura Leuzzi; Stephen Partridge. New Barnet: John Libbey Publishing, 2016. p. 291-300.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Perceptions of a real event: tensions between the seen and the unseen in performance and its video distribution

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REWIND | British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s. (Edited Book (pp 224 130,00 words) Chapters from Sean Cubitt, Grahame Weinbren, Yvonne Spielmann, Malcolm Dickson, Stephen Partridge, Adam Lockhart, Jackie Hatfield and Emile Shemilt, with foreword by Brian Winston)

RewindItalia Website

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Material tensions: a practice-based study of the tension between the 'material' and the 'image' in digital moving image art

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