Kipphoff, Karen: An Outlook on Mediascapes

I found this article at TRANS, it is an essay about visual and performing arts concerning "timebased technological arts, especially film and video" in relation to communicative structures and the perception of subject and object. The increase of media productions in the 1990ies lead to mediatization of society, so new modes of expression emerged. Kipphoff´s thesis states, that

• "Events of both local, global or no apparent relevance transported by media are perceived and reenacted by the individual / collective witnessing and participating in the drama of e. g. the Levinsky affair, Princess Diana´s death and funeral proceedings, the US Presidential Elections of 2000. The relevance of the time based visual materials thus exceeds not only it´s decorative function within the theatre, the arts or tv, it has simultaneously acquired the position of the main character, the spectator and the audience."

Kipphoff supports her hypothesis with examples of texts.

Source: http://www.inst.at/trans/9Nr/kipphoff9.htm

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