Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image

Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image

Artists have been experimenting with film and pushing the boundaries of the moving image since the earliest years of the medium. Gaining momentum with the emergence of the expanded cinema movement in the 1960s, by the start of the new millennium, video art, moving image, and broader screen-based practices had become some of art’s most dominant and influential genres. Among this rich and dynamic cultural space, two Australian institutions have stood out as central pillars of this essential art form. Since 2009, Adelaide’s Samstag Museum of Art and Melbourne’s ACMI have driven major commissioning programs for new moving image works that have helped both redefine and further locate the medium at the core of Australian and global creative practice. This book, the first of its kind in Australia, not only provides a rich reference and documentation of these crucial moving image commissions, but also provides a series of historical and newly commissioned critical and discursive reflections on both the artistic outputs and the role and history of commissioning practice.

28 cm x 20 cm, portrait, 384 pages OTA-bound softcover
Editors: Anna Zagala, Matt Millikan, Dan Rule, Justine Ellis
Design: Narelle Brewer for Perimeter Bureau
Year: 2023
ISBN: 9781922545268
Published by: Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, ACMI, and Perimeter Editions