{"title":"Crossing a Productive Melancholia in Artistic Work Based on Xerography","authors":"Maryam Muliaee","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.7","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests that xerography or copy art – also called “generative systems” – may incite melancholia. The theoretical framework for this analysis includes Svetlana Boym’s concept of “broken-tech arts” (2001) and her conceptualization of ruins (2010), as well as Laura Marks’ model of “haptic visuality” (2002). With the proliferation of copy machines, including Xerox, in the US in the 1960s, artists began producing new work through inventive use and creative manipulation of copiers. Copy machines allowed distinct effects, such as stretching and degeneration, and specifically resulted in the generation of haptic images: synthetic ruins that can trigger melancholia in an aesthetic experience. I posit that melancholia has the potential to inspire one to contemplate the ruined image and explore new meanings. Xerography work by Stevlana Boym, Sonia Sheridan, and Timm Ulrichs will be analyzed as relevant examples. This review contributes to melancholia studies by linking the field of xerography to the concept and experience","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74630741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melancholia as a Perpetual State. Configurations of Memory and how the Process of Becoming Becomes Externalized in Cinematography","authors":"Iulia Cîrdan","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"395 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76622048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Melancholy of the Machine. Doubting Your Own Ghost in the Posthuman World","authors":"Călina Moldovan","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"417 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86843580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Construction of Space-temporality through Melancholy and Forms of Desire","authors":"Ioana Hodârnău","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.21.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.21.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77395983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meaning and Film: Setting the Agenda for an Embodied Cognitive Approach","authors":"Maarten Coëgnarts","doi":"10.24193/EKPHRASIS.20.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/EKPHRASIS.20.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72712646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spectator Perspectives in Virtual Reality Cinematography. The Witness, the Hero and the Impersonator","authors":"D. Nicolae","doi":"10.24193/EKPHRASIS.20.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/EKPHRASIS.20.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79067668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quand le langage cinématographique (s’)éclate : le langage cinématographique comme langage ordinaire","authors":"R. Odin","doi":"10.24193/EKPHRASIS.20.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/EKPHRASIS.20.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75530262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matters of Time in László Krasznahorkai’s and Béla Tarr’s Satantango","authors":"Alexandra Irimia","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.20.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.20.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89631148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cinéma, philosophie de l’autorité, neurosciences : Paradis pour tous","authors":"Camille Roelens","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.20.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.20.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72504019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"This is Not a Film You Are Watching. Corneliu Porumboiu’s Non-Cinematic Stylistics and the Visceral-Conceptual Cinema","authors":"Doru Pop","doi":"10.24193/ekphrasis.20.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/ekphrasis.20.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40444,"journal":{"name":"Ekphrasis-Images Cinema Theory Media","volume":"153 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74907857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}