The Optical and the Environmental

From Screens to Screenscapes

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2229359
AutoresFrancesco Casetti (0000-0002-0347-4688, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen49
Número3
Páginas315-336
Fecha de publicación2023-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/723720
OpenAlexW4362576653
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas20

The screen is not a pre established object: it becomes a screen—and that screen—when it interacts with a group of elements and relates to a set of practices that produce it as a screen. In this process of becoming screen, a crucial step is played by the space in which the screen is located and where spectators gather. The confluence of screen and space changes our perception of both: the screen displays the situatedness of its action, and the space its nature of medium. The landscape becomes a screenscape, in which individuals access images through which they negotiate with reality and others. Eventually, the insistence on becoming screen highlights the role of contingency and conjuncture in the process of mediation: screenscapes emerge according opportunities, conflicts, and potentialities. Hence a media archeology that, far from being linear and teleological, follows unpredicted paths and creates surprising links—a rhizomatic media archeology

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