Ariane Noël de Tilly

Ph.D. candidate, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

Universiteit van Amsterdam

Doctoral research began in September 2007.

Dissertation title: Re-exhibiting and distributing the moving image

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been an increasing number of moving-image works presented in exhibitions venues. The medium of production of some of these time-based works (single-channel videos, video installations, film installations, etc.) makes them more conducive to replication. Consequently, they can then be sold as editions, meaning that more than one institution or collector can acquire the “same” artwork. Since time-based artworks change every time and in each place they are being re-exhibited, their documentation remains problematic because it is difficult to determine what the artwork actually consists of. My goal is to propose an approach for analyzing and documenting contemporary, time-based artworks that were sold in editions of two or more. The method I will use entails a better understanding of the “script” of those works, which can be defined as a series of prescriptions allowing the re-exhibition of an artwork. At the moment, literature examining the notion of edition in new media art is very limited and no precise rules have been set forward on how to determine the edition for time-based art. For these reasons, the question of edition will be one of the focal points of my doctoral research.

Supervisors: Dr. Julia Noordegraaf and Prof.dr. José van Dijck

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