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

20世纪60年代末和70年代初，东亚消费电子产品进入美国，预示着经济停滞的新时代和一系列新的审美实践。在分析媒体技术与战后社会经济形态之间关系的基础上，我的项目以这种历史交汇为起点，考察录像图像中经济与美学的结合。在20世纪60年代后的经济危机背景下，录像艺术困扰着价值与劳动的联系，并塑造了主体性在资本关系中的重塑。

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.