Workshop: Duration and Distraction: Theorizing Moving Images in a Time of Mobile Viewers

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Speaker: Lutz Koepnick from Vanderbilt University

For many viewers today to watch a television show or even a film at the movie theater involves the use of multiple screens at once. Screen-based installation art, on the other hand, often anticipates viewers freely roaming through gallery spaces at their own pace and will. This talk discusseed how both media theory and moving-image artist today respond to today’s mobile forms of spectatorship. It presented a number of artistic positions that seek to rework the viewer’s durational commitments and ask how we may address the fact that nothing about a viewer’s time and attention can be taken for granted any more.