REWIND | Italia, Early Video Art in Italy : I primi anni della videoarte in Italia
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 12392368
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- John Libbey Publishing
- ISBN
- 9780861967216
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The edited volume ‘REWIND Italia Early Video Art in Italy’ brings seminal, early video experimentation from Italy into the international spotlight. The book (edited by Partridge and Leuzzi) is a major output of the AHRC-funded REWIND Italia project led by Partridge (PI, 2011-14) published in 2016. It provides access to primary archival research, including transcriptions of interviews with artists alongside seminal essays from the 1970s translated into English for the first time by Leuzzi. New texts by leading scholars and artists (including Barilli, R., Bordini, S., Cardazzo, P., Cirifino, F., Cubitt, S., Di Marino, B., Fagoni, V., Giaccarro, L., Lischi, S., Lockhart, A., Rosa, P.) were commissioned by Partridge and a wide selection of video stills and other images chosen by the editors. The publication addresses significant gaps in the international histories of early video art where dominant narratives often focus upon a fragment. It documents Italy as a vibrant centre of video art production and exhibition throughout the 1970s and 1980s that attracted artists from all over the world. The volume allows the reader to learn not only about Italian video art but broader trends in European and American contexts. The book was launched at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow (December 2015) with presentations by the editors, excerpts from seminal video works, and a re-enactment of a video work from 1979 by Venice-based composer Claudio Ambrosini featured in the collection. Further launch events and screenings were organised at Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins, University of the Arts London (February 2016) and The British School at Rome (April 2016), introducing this little-known history of video art to wider audiences. 17 of the 19 chapters in the book represent new material first published in 2016 (chapters 2 and 19 were submitted to REF2014 as part of a multi-component output).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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