TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benthien, Claudia
AU  - Lau, Jordis
AU  - Marxsen, Maraike M.
AB  - “Language can be this incredibly forceful material—there’s something about it where if you can  strip away its history, get to the materiality of it, it can rip into you like claws” (Hill in Vischer  1995, 11). This arresting image by media artist Gary Hill evokes the nearly physical force of  language to hold recipients in its grip. That power seems to lie in the material of language itself,  which, with a certain rawness, may captivate or touch, pounce on, or even harm its addressee.  Hill’s choice of words is revealing: ‘rip into’ suggests not only a metaphorical emotional pull but  also the literal physicality of linguistic attack. It is no coincidence that the statement comes from  a media artist, since media artworks often use language to produce a strong sensorial stimulus.  Media artworks not only manipulate language as a material in itself, but they also manipulate the  viewer’s perceptual channels. The guises and effects of language as artistic material are the topic  of this book, The Literariness of Media Art.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000515
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1053887969
KW  - Media Art
KW  - literary approach
KW  - language
KW  - Defamiliarization
KW  - New media art
KW  - Russian formalism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4cf6f8a0-269e-4090-9f28-9d6d32a1db02/9781138091511_text.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29421
PB  - Taylor & Francis
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781138091528; 9781315107981
TI  - The Literariness of Media Artnull
ER  - 
