Photofilmic Art, part 2: Images, displays, spectators - Introduction

With the advent of digital technology, boundaries between the photographic and the filmic have become increasingly blurred – both technically, in drawing on the same software and hardware engineering, and perceptually, in leaving the spectator in doubt of the (photographic or filmic) nature of the image. The essays of this volume question the connections established among such hybrid photofilmic images, displays, and viewers. They focus on how photofilmic images are displayed within given spatial, medial, and institutional contexts, for instance the gallery, and the cinema, and how different displays and presentational formats shape or frame the viewer’s perception and experience of photofilmic images.