Schofield, M orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-2000 (2019) Re-animating Ghosts: Materiality and Memory in Hauntological Appropriation. International Journal of Film and Media Arts, 4 (2). 3. pp. 24-37. ISSN 2183-9271
Abstract
This research examines the spectrality of animation and other media based on the photographic trace. Using diverse examples from popular culture and the author’s own investigative practice in media art, this paper looks at how archival media is re-used and can be brought back to life in new moving image works, in a gesture we might call hauntological appropriation.
While sampling and re-using old materials is nothing new, over the last 15 years we have seen an ongoing tendency to foreground the ghostly qualities of vintage recordings and found foot- age, and a recurrent fetishisation and simulation of obsolete technologies. Here we examine the philosophies and productions behind this hauntological turn and why the materiality of still and moving image media has become such a focus. We ask how that materiality effects the machines that remember for us, and how we reuse these analogue memories in digital cultures.
Due to the multimodal nature of the author’s creative practice, photography, video art, documentary film and animation, are interrogated here theoretically. Re-animating the ghosts of old media can reveal ontological differences between these forms, and a ghostly synergy between the animated and the photographic.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Michael Peter Schofield. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
Keywords: | documentary film; animation; hauntology; memory; media archaeology; appropriation; media ontology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2020 11:41 |
Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2020 11:41 |
Published Version: | https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issu... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Film and Media Arts Department / Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias |
Identification Number: | 10.24140/ijfma.v4.n2.edit |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:159082 |
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