JoLMA

The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts

Unframing/Reframing in the Contemporary Visual, Performing, and Media Arts

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Pietro Conte - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
  • Cristina Baldacci - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
  • Susanne Franco - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
Abstract

Over the last two decades, the notion of the frame has been radically challenged in the visual, performing, and media arts, particularly as a consequence of the introduction of two mutually related concepts: ‘unframing’ and ‘reframing’. While the first refers to the gesture of ideally getting rid of any framing device, the second offers alternative ways to contextualise objects, acts, and images in time and space. This issue of JoLMA proposes to examine the concepts of unframing and reframing from the interdisciplinary perspective of visual art, performance, and media studies, by following both a theoretical and a practice-based approach. The entanglement of theory and practice becomes crucial when an attempt is made to introduce new epistemological standpoints.

Keywords Framing in artContemporary artConversationDesktop documentaryReframingVisual Culture StudiesArt of the 1960s and 1970sFramingArt OntologyArt magazinesNarrationSingle ImagesFeminist artPictorial StorytellingStorytellingPicture ThresholdsHuman-machine entanglementSequential ImagesGrosse FatigueRe-framingTraining humansFrameArtists’ magazinesArt theoryArtJudy ChicagoAICamille HenrotAvalanche magazineChatGPTImageHyper-enactmentAugmented realityVirtual RealityInterpretationRe-enactmentFictional Worlds

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/01 | Published Sept. 25, 2023 | Language it, en