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Abstract: a1_The following is an excerpt from Lenka Dolanová´s M.A. thesis „Moving Images“ are Entering the Gallery (Charles University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Art History, June 2004), which demonstrates the changing relations between moving images and the gallery space from the 1960s to present. The notion of „expanded cinema“ (developed by Gene Youngblood, Peter Weibel and others) is still being used to refer to artworks that in some ways expand the criteria of classical cinema. The early installations, inspired by conceptual tendencies in art, suggested new possibilities of recipients´ participation - the recipient becomes an integral part of the artwork. As the moving image expands into space, it interrelates with sculptural installation and gains new physical dimensions. Thus it can help us localize in the 1960s and 70s certain precedent of contemporary art. In regard to the new media´s installations-projections, one can however search for even much older predecessors of the contemporary media art. The intermedia performances which combined staged action with film developed mainly in the US and often took place in the specially designed spaces. Other artists developed the interconnections between sculpture and film (for example Robert Whitman in his film „sculptures“ from the 1960s). Moving image in the gallery space often gains the dimensions inspired by the classical visual art forms (diptych, polptych, cupola). On the other side, the artist in Germany and Austria worked in a more aggresive manner, using film as an instrument of the offense against the public, often with a clear political overtones. |