ON. Off. On. Off. Light Intermittence as a creation practice in the 1960s

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7644045

Keywords:

Intermittence, Flicker Film, Epilepsy, Peter Kubelka, Tony Conrad

Abstract

A segmented conception of time in the modern era contributes to producing progressively a clipped and intermittent grammar within the field of artistic production. Due to certain movements, such as the Flicker Film in the 60s, this practice will be taken to the extreme leading to works exclusively composed by the flickering of light.

Author Biography

Castellano San Jacinto, T., La Laguna University

She is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of La Laguna, in the Drawing Area. She has a doctorate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she also studied the Master of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Plastic Arts. She has carried out research stays at the Walter Benjamin Archive in Berlin, at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, at the Université Paris 8, Saint Denis-Vincennes in Paris and at the MoMA Museum in New York. She is the author of the book Beginning. Search. Distraction. An analysis of distraction in Walter Benjamin (2011). Her lines of research analyze the contemporary artistic production of interrupted images linked to the technological medium. She currently combines her teaching and research work with her artistic practice.

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2021-12-22

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Castellano San jacinto, T. (2021). ON. Off. On. Off. Light Intermittence as a creation practice in the 1960s. ASRI. Art and Society. Journal for Research in Arts and Digital Humanities, (20), 12–24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7644045

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No. 20 (2021): OPENASRI. Miscellaneous Number

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