Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Campbell, Andy
2. Weathers, Chelsea
3. West, Jennifer (Artist)
4. Klein, Norman M., 1945-
5. Comer, Stuart

Description

1. 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 x 23 cm + 1 folding insert

Summary

1. This debut monograph brings together nearly a decade of "analogital" experiments in film, sculpture, and installation by one of the most committed artists working on the West Coast today. Saturated in a history of avant-garde and Third World cinema (not to mention HIV/AIDS activism and the incipient Riot Grrrl movement) since she was an undergraduate at Evergreen State College, West's work today treads similar ground: challenging the utopianism of new media adoptees as well as the nostalgia of analog-only film adherents. The eleven projects reproduced in the book, all produced between 2014 and 2020, fall under the heading of "Media Archeology," and reveal the historical and material promiscuity of Jennifer West's experiments in film and art, often tied to the changing geography of Los Angeles and its surrounds. The monograph includes an interview with Stuart Comer, Curator of Media and Performance at MoMA, New York, and essays by Norman Klein, critic, novelist, and urban and media historian, Andy Campbell, art historian, critic and curator, and Chelsea Weathers, art historian and managing editor at Radius Books.

Alternative title

1. Media archaeology

Subject

1. West, Jennifer (Artist)
2. West, Jennifer (Artist) > Interviews
3. Mass media and culture
4. Mass media and technology
5. Mass media > Philosophy
6. Information technology
7. Art > Philosophy
8. Motion pictures > Philosophy

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Contents

1. Media archaeology : works 2014-2021 -- Expect even better : Jennifer West's Flashlight Filmstrip Projections / Chelsea Weathers -- Future remembering : Jennifer West's Media Archaeology / Andy Campbell -- Fifty ways to be trapped between two worlds : the 6th Street Bridge / Norman Klein -- Conversation / Jennifer West with Stuart Comer.

Call number

1. JQF 22-1596

Title

1. Jennifer West : media archaeology / edited by Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers.

Publisher

1. Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, with the support of the Thoma Foundation, [2022]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Campbell, Andy, editor, author.
2. Weathers, Chelsea, editor, author.
3. West, Jennifer (Artist), author, artist, interviewee.
4. Klein, Norman M., 1945- author.
5. Comer, Stuart, author, interviewer.

ISBN

1. 1942185944 hardcover
2. 9781942185949 hardcover

Research call number

1. JQF 22-1596