<videovortex> NARRATIVITY: HOW VISUAL ARTS, CINEMA AND LITERATURE ARE TELLING THE WORLD TODAY (Modified by Geert Lovink)

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NARRATIVITY: HOW VISUAL ARTS, CINEMA AND LITERATURE ARE TELLING THE 
WORLD TODAY

  serie: Visual Arts - Essay
  Ed by: DIS VOIR
René Audet, Claude Romano, Laurence Dreyfus, Carl Therrien, Hugues 
Marchal
  translated by Paul Buck &Catherine Petit

  Size: 6,5 x 8,5 inch
  Format: paperback
  Pages: 128
  Illustrations: 42 B&W
  Price: 35 $ - 19 £ - 28 €
  ISBN: 2-914-563-30-2

  To tackle the question of narration in its ruptures and mutations in 
an age of media culture and influences of videogames – where the ludic 
and interactive principle is an important element – is a way to draw up 
an inventory of the Nineties, a time when art starts to function like 
some kind of editing table on which the artists can recreate daily 
reality.  Through that reflection on time, the question is to show how 
its new languages and new ways of writing are representative of the 
contemporary imaginary expressed in it and to reaffirm that the work of 
art is an “event” before being a monument or a mere testimony, an event 
which constitutes an experience drawing in the spectator.

The book quotes the work of artists, filmmakers and writers such as:

Gilles Barbier, Pierre Giner, Eric Chevillard, Lynne Cohen, Pia 
Rönicke, Mathieu Briand, Pierre Huyghe, Alban Barré, Christophe Hanna, 
Thomas Demand, Toshio Iwaï, Kolkoz, Tobias Bernstrup, Felix Stephan 
Huber, Virginie Barré, Stéphane Sautour, Cory Arcangel, Gus Van Sant, 
David Fincher, Raoul Ruiz, Christopher Nolan, Peter Greenaway, Mike 
Figgis, Guillaume Paris, Pandaxpress, Scott McCloud, David Foster 
Wallace, etc.

René Audet: (researcher in contemporary literature at Laval University, 
Québec) has analyzed definitions of narrative and narrativity as they 
are used to seize contemporary artistic practices. In his work, that 
notion of “narrativity” is defined as a matter of event (a statement on 
which is founded the claim that any vanishing narrative does not leave 
a piece of work stripped of all narrativity).

Claude Romano: (philosopher: L’Evénement et le Temps; ’L’Evénement et 
le Monde) develops the question of “event”, of relation to “time” in 
the more global “context” of what’s at stake in our contemporary 
culture.

Laurence Dreyfus: (independent curator for visual art exhibitions 
focuses on new media and participative aesthetics; curated around 25 
exhibitions: ‘Tokyo Game’ at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, ‘Connivences’ 
Lyon Biennale, ‘Animated Stories’, Caixa Forum, Barcelona; Bilbao; Le 
Fresnoy Lille; ‘Version Animé’, Geneva…) Studies on narrative devices 
in the visual arts: art at play, and the interactive aesthetics which 
reveal a true cyberculture that draws, at the same time, on video 
games, animation films and a fantastic universe, cinema and music…

Carl Therrien: (currently preparing a doctorate in semiology and 
researcher in the History of Art and Cinematographic Studies Department 
at the University of Montreal, Québec). Studies on video game and ludic 
reception in contemporary cinema: the popularity of the “film à clef” 
(The Sixth Sense, Fight Club), formal references to video games (Run 
Lola Run, Elephant),), the clash of the narrative and the database 
(Greenaway), the narrative throw of the dice (Ruiz, Resnais)…

Hugues Marchal: (Associate professor of French literature UMR 7171 
“Writings of modernity”, Université of Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 
III]).. His study on narrative devices resulting from the 
volatilization of the “epic novels”, lets us envisage for narration a 
form of dispersive survival – or better, to consider that 
disintegration as one of the privileged modes of contemporary 
narrativity.

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