Phillip Brophy - Screenic: Politicised Writings on Being Screened

Screenic: Politicised Writings on Being Screened is an anthology of Philip Brophy’s writing on art over the last twenty-five years. The focus of the selection is on art that involves screens: projected as film in museums, digitised for installations in galleries, curated as documents within exhibitions, presented as outdoor illuminations on buildings, utilised for the production of VR and AI-generated content, and even wall murals derived from televisual screens. The driver for the writing of these articles is an interest in media literacy within fine art contexts.

Together, the articles reinforce the view that ongoing changes taking place in the mediascape over the last two decades create challenges for artists, producers, curators, viewers, and critics—sometimes resulting in a rejuvenation of how media art can be imagined and presented, other times evidencing an anaemic grasp of the contemporary mediascape that whorls outside the white cube.

290 pages, softcover, 110 × 180 mm, colour
Texts: Phillip Brophy, Helen Hughes, and Emile Zile
Editors: Olga Bennett and Helen Hughes
Copyediting and proofreading: Helen Hughes and Amy Stuart
Design:  Duncan Blachford and James Vinciguerra
Edition: 700
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781763537217
Publisher: Discipline