The Audiovisual Breakthrough at Re:Fokus Hamburg

Visual music, expanded cinema, live cinema, VJing, live audiovisual performance—these are concepts enough to create some confusion in the wide realm of today’s artistic audiovisual production. While each of these concepts is widely propagated and suggestive of its own line of history and shared practices, they are not as yet sufficiently defined for theoretical debate and clear practical use. To untangle this confusion was the aim of our project, The Audiovisual Breakthrough, which brought together six international researchers to solve the problem in a collaborative effort. This book is the result. Its main purpose is to make the entangled complexities of the field manageable by putting forth and elaborating on definitions for the five main concepts named above. The theoretical texts are complemented by the design of the book, a graphic take on audiovisuality that includes visualizations of the results from an international survey among the practitioners in the field of audiovisual (art) practices. This book is addressed to artists, curators, researchers, students, and teachers within these practices, and to anyone working at their intersection with other fields of knowledge.

The Audiovisual Breakthrough
Ana Carvalho, Cornelia Lund (Hg.)
Contributions by Ana Carvalho, Eva Fischer, Cornelia Lund, Gabriel Menotti and Adeena Mey
Berlin, 2015
ISBN 978-3-00-051072-4
PDF download for free: http://www.ephemeral-expanded.net/audiovisualbreakthrough

Event information: https://www.facebook.com/events/689721077830612/
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Venue:
B-Movie
Brigittenstraße 5
20359 Hamburg

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German press text:

Visual Music, Expanded Cinema, Live Cinema, VJing, Live Audiovisual Performance – Begriffe genug, um eine gewisse Verwirrung auszulösen im Bereich zeitgenössischer audiovisueller Kunstproduktion. Hier setzt The Audiovisual Breakthrough an: das Buch ist das Ergebnis eines kollaborativen Projekts, das sechs internationale Forscher_innen zusammengebracht hat, um diese Begriffskonfusion zu entwirren. 
Ausgehend von dem neu erschienenen Buch diskutieren Cornelia und Holger Lund (fluctuating images, Berlin) zeitgenössische Entwicklungen in der audiovisuellen Kunstproduktion, wobei die gemeinsame Betrachtung von Videobeispielen nicht zu kurz kommen soll.