MFJ Nos. 52, 56, & 57 Bundle

With this bundle, you will receive three MFJ volumes handpicked by our senior editor Grahame Weinbren at a discounted price.

The bundle contains:

MFJ 52 “Presence”
This issue contains articles on high definition video, 1970s UK film & video installation, and works by Phil Solomon.

MFJ 56 “Material Practice: From Sprockets to Binaries”
The topics discussed in this particular issue are so widespread, so integral in the current climate of artists’ moving image culture, and so expansive beyond that culture, that the metaphor is more apt than ever. In the so-called digital age, binary technologies are embedded everywhere we look, but, as the artists discussed in this issue demonstrate, this does not eradicate the complex crossovers and fissures between the Analog and the Digital, between works grounded in the laws of optics and chemistry and those grounded in the laws of mathematics.

MFJ 57 “Violence in Artists’ Cinema”
We are born in violence. And we live in violence. Yet, too often we feel these facts should be denied. What horror might befall us if we sought to embrace the abject and explore our darker impulses? What if we were to find such pleasure in these dark regions that we decide to never return? The articles, reviews, and artist pages in this issue treat these questions – delving into works that both contemplate and enact various ‘violent’ acts.

$32.00

Additional information

Weight 33 oz
Dimensions 7 × 10 in
Format

Print

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Publication Date

15 October 2012, 15 October 2013, Fall Issue, November 2009, Spring Issue

Medium

Table of Contents MFJ 52

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Jessica Ruffin & Grahame Weinbren
Introduction

 

REVIEWS

Cathy Caplan
Heart Lights

Sophia Powers
Masstransiscope: Restored and Reconsidered

Roberta Friedman
Presence and Pastness: Three Films at Tribeca 2009

Eivind Røssak
Celluloid City: Diary from an Encounter

 

ARTICLES

Gregg Biermann & Sarah Markgraf
Found Footage, On Location: Phil Solomon’s Last Days in a Lonely Place

Terry Flaxton
The Technologies, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Politics of High Definition Video

A. L. Rees
Projecting Back: UK FIlm and Video Installation in the 1970s

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Lucy Reynolds
Minor Cinemas, Artists’ Film and Video: Books by David James and David Curtis

 

LETTERS

Jeremy Menzies
Observations on the San Francisco Art Institute: A Letter to the Community

 

IN MEMORIAM

Pat O’Neill
Chick Strand 1931-2009: A Memoir

Table of Contents MFJ 56

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Grahame Weinbren
Introduction

 

REVIEWS

Kim Knowles
Tacita Dean Film

Carolyn L. Kane
Error as Critical Praxis, Review of Peter Krapp’s
Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture

Rachel Stevens
JODI: Street Digital

Chris Kennedy
Evan Meaney: the well of representation

Kenneth White
Michael Snow: In The Way

 

INTERVIEWS

Justin Remes
Sculpting Time: An Interview with Michael Snow

 

ARTICLES

Martin Rumsby
Photographic Memory: Diary of a Viewer

Jihoon Kim
Bruce Elder’s Film-Digital Hybrids and Materialist Historiography

Lucy Reynolds
Laure Prouvost: Incorrect Syntax

Clint Enns
Navigating Algorithmic Editing:
Algorithmic Editing as an Alternative Approach to Database Cinema

 

SPECIAL FEATURE

Processing Parameters: A Lecture by Hollis Frampton
Introduction by Gerald O’Grady

 

ARTIST PAGES

Bradley Eros
‘more captivating than phosphorus’

Janis Crystal Lipzin
A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder

 

COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Katherine Bauer
Steven Woloshen
Richard Tuohy

 

IN MEMORIAM

Scott MacDonald
Amos Vogel

Bill Horrigan
Chris Marker

Table of Contents MFJ 57

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Jessica Ruffin
Introduction

 

REVIEWS

Federico Windhausen
Micro/Mutabilité: The Experimental Documentary Short at Wavelengths 2012

Andrew St. Maurice
Tony Conrad: WiP

Roberta Friedman
Where’s the Baby? Ian Olds’ FRANCOPHRENIA

 

ARTICLES

Gregg Biermann and Sarah Markgraf
Cut to the Chase: Brian L. Frye’s A Reasonable Man

Jennifer Montgomery
The Aftermath of Prophecies: Peggy Ahwesh’s Ape of Nature

Duncan White
Art After the Destruction of Experience: DIAS and Experimental Film

Grahame Weinbren
Embedded Aggression Implied or Enacted Video Works by Catherine Elwes and David Critchley

Kenneth White
Until You Get To Know Me: Tony Oursler’s Aetiology of Television

 

COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Anna Marziano
Tony Conrad
Peggy Ahwesh
Tony Oursler

 

ARTIST PAGES

Pat O’Neill
Ojo Caliente

Noe Kidder
Film, The Violent Mirror

 

INTERVIEWS

Scott MacDonald
Remaking a Found-Footage Film in a Digital Age: An Interview with Jennifer Proctor