Article ID: CBB001320387

The Audiovisual Field in Bruce Nauman's Videos (2013)

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This article investigates the audiovisual field in some of Bruce Nauman's early videos. Historians of science and anthropologists have pointed to the necessity of considering seeing and hearing as faculties that are acquired. I argue that media technology plays a crucial role in that process. Nauman's videos explore the relation of perception, the human body, and media technology, bringing to the fore the extent to which this seemingly self-evident relationship is artificial and constructed. In particular, Nauman's Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. employs techniques of musical training that emerged in the late nineteenth century from the physiology of movement and fatigue.

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Authors & Contributors
Danielsen, Anne
Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild
Lewis, George E.
Bates, Eliot
Wald, Sarah D.
Magnusson, Thor
Concepts
Music
Technology and music
Aesthetics
Science and art
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Engineering, audio
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Turkey
California (U.S.)
Paris (France)
Institutions
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (United States)
Stanford University
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