Bøger af Giuliana Bruno

The Garden in the Machine is a groundbreaking total installation by renowned artist Jesper Just that explores the intricate relationship between natural and digitally produced environments. Set against the striking façade of Filmby Aarhus, this immersive work transforms the building into a canvas, projecting an interactive image sequence of a slowly rotating forest from sunset until midnight.At the heart of this installation is a solitary Scots Pine, equipped with sensors that continuously register its photosynthetic processes, dictating the film’s flow in real-time. Spanning an impressive 1,400 square meters and utilising 13.2 kilometres of LED strips, The Garden in the Machine stands as one of the largest video installations in the world.This book offers an in-depth exploration of Just’s artistic vision, technical ingenuity, and the profound questions his work raises about reality, perception, and the intertwining of the organic and the artificial.

Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. Giuliana Bruno explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media. To explain our fascination with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoanalysis, environmental philosophy, architecture, the history of science, visual art, and moving image culture to see how projective mechanisms and their environments have developed over time. She reveals how atmosphere is formed and mediated, how it can change, and what projection can do to modify a site. In so doing, she gives new life to the alchemic possibilities of transformative projective atmospheres. Showing how their "environmentality" produces sites of exchange and relationality, this book binds art to the ecology of atmosphere.

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between ';sight' and ';site' and ';motion' and ';emotion.' In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois, the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni, media archaeology and the origins of the museum, and her own journeys to her native Naples. Visually luscious and daring in conception, Bruno's book opens new vistas and understandings at every turn.

Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language.