Medial Gestures. On the 'decipherability' of techno-images (Vilém Flusser) and their production

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Of the plethora of observations and contextualizations that Vilém Flusser puts forward in his book Gestures (Flusser 2014), I am interested here, and with respect to current research on archival processes relating to performative arts, in his approach to media theory in particular. This is manifest in the section of the book titled “Beyond Machines” and in the three chapters devoted to the gestures that produce “techno-images”, as Flusser himself dubbed them in a previous work (Flusser 1998b: 9-234): the gestures of photographing, filming and video.

References and Relationships

• Related object and literature: 2191-0901 ; 2649103-5

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Bildende und angewandte Kunst

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Büscher, Barbara
• Event: Herstellung
• (who): Hochschule für Musik und Theater 'Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy' Leipzig

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-158610
• Last update: 14.03.2025, 8:15 AM CET