Conference Presentations by Chris Handran
Demonstrations: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, 2022
Presented at 'The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World,' The Australian National University &... more Presented at 'The Magic Lantern in Australia and the World,' The Australian National University & The National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, September 2018
Presented at 'The Latent Image': 5th Biennial Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, University of... more Presented at 'The Latent Image': 5th Biennial Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, University of Edinburgh 2018
This paper approaches the problematics of visibility and invisibility embodied by the apparatus, which is routinely treated as a latent presence, or blind spot, within the images that it produces. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s discussion of the blind spot in perception offers a means of reconsidering the relationship between apparatus and image. Vilém Flusser’s category of ‘technical images’ will be considered in relation to the material hermeneutics of scientific imaging articulated by Don Ihde. These approaches will be applied to key examples that include contemporary scientific imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the contingent astronomy of August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1894). These examples embody particular relations between apparatus and image that shed new light on imaging practices at the intersection of science and art.
Presented at 'the Work of Art': Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2016 Conference, Aus... more Presented at 'the Work of Art': Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2016 Conference, Australian National University, Canberra
Presented at 'Together Apart': Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2012 Conference, Univ... more Presented at 'Together Apart': Art Association of Australia and New Zealand 2012 Conference, University of Sydney
Presented at 'Critical Information 2011' at the School of Visual Arts, New York
Papers by Chris Handran
This paper approaches the problematics of visibility and invisibility embodied by the apparatus, ... more This paper approaches the problematics of visibility and invisibility embodied by the apparatus, which is routinely treated as a latent presence, or blind spot, within the images that it produces. Maurice Merleau-Ponty's discussion of the blind spot in perception offers a means of reconsidering the relationship between apparatus and image. Vilém Flusser's category of 'technical images' will be considered in relation to the material hermeneutics of scientific imaging articulated by Don Ihde. These approaches will be applied to key examples that include contemporary scientific imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the contingent astronomy of August Strindberg's <i>Celestographs </i>(1894). These examples embody particular relations between apparatus and image that shed new light on imaging practices at the intersection of science and art.
Theses by Chris Handran
Creative Industries Faculty School of Media Entertainment Creative Arts, 2013
This practice-led research explores the 'apparatus' in relation to its mediation of experience in... more This practice-led research explores the 'apparatus' in relation to its mediation of experience in contemporary art. Drawing on the thought of Vilém Flusser, a model of the apparatus is developed. Technical images such as photography, film and video, are dependent on the apparatus for their production and dissemination, yet the apparatus itself is often hidden or obscured in both the experience of the work and the discourse that surrounds it. I propose that in making or modifying apparatuses that are part of the viewing experience, artists produce specific modes of spectatorship. Using the framework of the apparatus as an interpretive lens, these modes of spectatorship are considered in works by Carsten Höller, Pipilotti Rist and Olafur Eliasson. The research identifies key practice strategies that foreground the apparatus both in the production of work and in its presentation. These strategies are developed and articulated in the context of my own practice and explored through creative works in the exhibition 'Complex Experience.' The research therefore develops critical and generative strategies to explore and interrogate the workings of the 'apparatus-audience complex.' iv
In the dominant mode of art discourse the apparatus features as a blind spot. It is most often tr... more In the dominant mode of art discourse the apparatus features as a blind spot. It is most often treated as an indexical trace of the image, as a readable text or conversely an unreadable formal gesture. This practice-led research draws on conceptions of the apparatus developed in the philosophy of science and technology. In doing so, it offers a new approach to understanding the apparatus in practice by foregrounding the material presence of technologies, their 'performative agency' and the perceptual dimensions of spectatorship.
Exhibition Catalogues by Chris Handran
Reviews by Chris Handran
Book Review : Out of Time is a collection of fourteen essays written by Blair French between 1998... more Book Review : Out of Time is a collection of fourteen essays written by Blair French between 1998 and 2005, including journal articles, artist profiles, catalogue contributions, and exhibition reviews. Pulled out of time and context, they are presented together to allow an overview of French's thinking across disparate times and purposes.
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Conference Presentations by Chris Handran
This paper approaches the problematics of visibility and invisibility embodied by the apparatus, which is routinely treated as a latent presence, or blind spot, within the images that it produces. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s discussion of the blind spot in perception offers a means of reconsidering the relationship between apparatus and image. Vilém Flusser’s category of ‘technical images’ will be considered in relation to the material hermeneutics of scientific imaging articulated by Don Ihde. These approaches will be applied to key examples that include contemporary scientific imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the contingent astronomy of August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1894). These examples embody particular relations between apparatus and image that shed new light on imaging practices at the intersection of science and art.
Papers by Chris Handran
Theses by Chris Handran
Exhibition Catalogues by Chris Handran
Reviews by Chris Handran
This paper approaches the problematics of visibility and invisibility embodied by the apparatus, which is routinely treated as a latent presence, or blind spot, within the images that it produces. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s discussion of the blind spot in perception offers a means of reconsidering the relationship between apparatus and image. Vilém Flusser’s category of ‘technical images’ will be considered in relation to the material hermeneutics of scientific imaging articulated by Don Ihde. These approaches will be applied to key examples that include contemporary scientific imaging of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and the contingent astronomy of August Strindberg’s Celestographs (1894). These examples embody particular relations between apparatus and image that shed new light on imaging practices at the intersection of science and art.