Videograms
The Pictorial Worlds of Biological Experimentation as an Object of Art and Theory
Distributed for Scheidegger & Spiess
Videograms
The Pictorial Worlds of Biological Experimentation as an Object of Art and Theory
In his work with video and audio recordings from scientific laboratories, the Swiss artist and artistic researcher Hannes Rickli pioneered the use of videograms as an artistic medium. As part of his ongoing project of collecting videograms, Rickli initiated a research program in which he worked closely with biologists and image scientists and developed a series of video installations that were first exhibited at the Helmhaus in Zurich in autumn of 2010. Complete with analytical essays from scholars and scientists, Videograms documents the video installations and their display at the museum and explores how the original material was produced in the laboratory.
368 pages | 714 color plates, 404 halftones, English text in separate paperback volume | 7 x 9 1/2 | © 2011
Art: Art--General Studies
Table of Contents
Foreword: Videograms of experimentation
Christoph Schenker
Investigations and discourses
Between lists and arena. Essays on the latency and potential of biological utility films
Hannes Rickli
Beings with lifeworlds of their own in scientific experiments. On the investigation of “natural systems”
Christoph Hoffmann
Using images in research
Christoph Hoffmann
Selections. Transcript of a video installation
Michael Guggenheim
Notes on an acoustic sociology of science
Michael Guggenheim
Videograms, exhibition Helmhaus Zurich, 2009
Hannes Rickli
Securing evidence for indeterminate images
Nicola Müllerschön
Film and knowledge
On the (un-)productivity of epistemic images as sources for film historiography
Yvonne Zimmermann
Is knowledge of life cinematic?
Vinzenz Hediger
Experimental systems
Fruit fly
Burbot and tub gurnard
RemOs 1
African cichlid
Ormia
Common mosquito
Honey bee (goal navigation)
Honey bee (sequence learning)
Varroa
Appendix
Videograms archive
Biographies
Image captions
Research Project Spillover, Credits