Video Capture: Art and the Electronic Image in the Era of Crisis

在20世纪60年代末和70年代初，来自东亚的消费电子产品进入美国，预示着一个新的经济停滞时代和一系列新的美学实践。在分析媒体技术与战后社会经济形态之间关系的基础上，我的项目以这一历史交汇为起点，考察视频图像中经济学和美学的结合。在20世纪60年代后经济危机的背景下，影像艺术扰乱了价值与劳动之间的联系，并塑造了与资本相关的主体性重塑。

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the arrival in the U.S. of consumer electronics from East Asia presaged both a new era of economic stagnation and a new set of aesthetic practices. Building on analyses of the relationship between media technologies and post-war socioeconomic formations, my project takes this historical confluence as a starting point to examine the conjoining of economics and aesthetics in the video image. In the context of post-1960s economic crisis, video art troubled the link between value and labour and modelled the remaking of subjectivity in relation to capital.