The self as a screen: Jean Baudrillard's ‘Ecstasy of Communication’, Susan Hiller's photomat portraits and the videos of Rachel Lowe

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Visual Art Practice Pub Date : 2004-01-01 DOI:10.1386/jvap.3.1.7/0

Kirstie Skinner

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Abstract

Abstract Baudrillard's 1986 essay, ‘The Ecstasy of Communication’, offers a formulation of the contemporary subject as a kind of ‘screen’, and develops a range of associated analogies characterizing the contemporary individual's total immersion in the ‘network’ of culture. Similar imagery has been used by artist Susan Hiller in her writings, interviews and art works. This article examines the respective approaches of artist and philosopher to the notion of the ‘self-as-a-screen’, and their different conclusions about how the constraints of commodity culture might be negotiated. As well as offering an extended analysis of Baudrillard's essay, the article also examines Susan Hiller's photomat portraits and two video works by artist Rachel Lowe. In particular, the conceptual and visual activity of ‘framing’ proves to be crucial to the theme of the self-as-a-screen, and is discussed in some detail.

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作为屏幕的自我:让·鲍德里亚的“交流的狂喜”，苏珊·希勒的照片肖像和雷切尔·洛的视频

鲍德里亚(Baudrillard)在1986年的文章《交流的狂喜》(The Ecstasy of Communication)中提出了当代主体作为一种“屏幕”的提法，并发展了一系列相关的类比，描述了当代个体在文化“网络”中的完全沉浸。艺术家苏珊·希勒(Susan Hiller)在她的写作、采访和艺术作品中也使用了类似的意象。本文考察了艺术家和哲学家对“自我作为屏幕”概念的各自方法，以及他们关于如何协商商品文化约束的不同结论。除了对鲍德里亚的文章进行深入分析外，这篇文章还研究了苏珊·希勒的照片肖像和艺术家雷切尔·洛的两件录像作品。特别是，“框架”的概念和视觉活动被证明对自我作为屏幕的主题至关重要，并进行了一些详细的讨论。

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Journal of Visual Art Practice Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Visual Art Practice (JVAP) is a forum of debate and inquiry for research in art. JVAP is concerned with visual art practice including the social, economic, political and cultural frames within which the formal concerns of art and visual art practice are located. The journal is concerned with research engaged in these disciplines, and with the contested ideas of knowledge formed through that research. JVAP welcomes submissions that explore new theories of research and practice and work on the practical and educational impact of visual arts research. JVAP recognises the diversity of research in art and visual arts, and as such, we encourage contributions from scholarly and pure research, as well as developmental, applied and pedagogical research. In addition to established scholars, we welcome and are supportive of submissions from new contributors including doctoral researchers. We seek contributions engaged with, but not limited to, these themes: -Art, visual art and research into practitioners'' methods and methodologies -Art , visual art, big data, technology, and social change -Art, visual art, and urban planning -Art, visual art, ethics and the public sphere -Art, visual art, representations and translation -Art, visual art, and philosophy -Art, visual art, methods, histories and beliefs -Art, visual art, neuroscience and the social brain -Art, visual art, and economics -Art, visual art, politics and power -Art, visual art, vision and visuality -Art, visual art, and social practice -Art, visual art, and the methodology of arts based research