Worlds of AudioVision

Worlds of AudioVision grew out of the need to define the principles and procedures of a hermeneutics of audiovisual texts. There is nothing new about the overlapping of artistic genres, but in recent decades their interaction has become of increasing importance on account of various factors: progress in electronic technologies, the incidence of audiovisual communication on daily life, experimentation in the performing arts (theatre, dance, music, cinema), the dissemination of new forms of artistic expression (videoart, installations), the proliferation of multimedia projects in popular culture, and last but not least, a comprehensive critical reflection on the status of the work of art. Initially audiovision was studied in the context of cinema, the prime electronic art which, in its evolution to date, has represented a standard point of reference. Nonetheless the progress of artistic languages, bringing about a genuine paradigm shift, suggests that an enquiry into the phenomenon can only start out from an integrated approach.

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