Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence Contributor(s): Schuppli, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262043572 ISBN-13: 9780262043571 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Photography | Photojournalism - Art | Mixed Media |
Dewey: 341.69 |
LCCN: 2019020112 |
Series: Leonardo |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 7" W x 9.1" (2.30 lbs) 392 pages |
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Publisher Description: The evidential role of matter--when media records trace evidence of violence--explored through a series of cases drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
These cases include an extraordinary videotape documenting the massacre at Izbica, Kosovo, used as war crimes evidence against Slobodan Milosevic; the telephonic transmission of an iconic photograph of a South Vietnamese girl fleeing an accidental napalm attack; radioactive contamination discovered in Canada's coastal waters five years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi; and the ecological media or "disaster film" produced by the Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Each highlights the degree to which a rearrangement of matter exposes the contingency of witnessing, raising questions about what can be known in relationship to that which is seen or sensed, about who or what is able to bestow meaning onto things, and about whose stories will be heeded or dismissed. An artist-researcher, Schuppli offers an analysis that merges her creative sensibility with a forensic imagination rich in technical detail. Her goal is to relink the material world and its affordances with the aesthetic, the juridical, and the political. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schuppli, Susan: - Susan Schuppli is Director of the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. |