This book addresses the preoccupation with memory in contemporary
artists' moving image installations. It situates artists' moving image
in relation to the transformations of digitalization as hybrid
intermedial combinations of analogue film, video and digital video
emerge from mid 1990s onwards. While film has always been closely
associated with the process of memory, this book investigates new models
of memory in artists' remediation of film with video and other
intermedial aesthetics. Beginning with a chapter on the theorization of
memory and the moving image and the diverse genealogies of artists' film
and video, the following chapters identify five different mnemonic modes
in artists' moving image: critical nostalgia, database narrative, the
'echo-chamber', documentary fiction and mediatized memories. Stan
Douglas, Steve McQueen, Runa Islam, Mark Leckey and Elizabeth Price are
of a generation that has lived through the transition from analogue to
digital. Their emphasis on the nuances of intermediality indicates the
extent to which we remember through media.