Albert Serra's Digital Singularity Academic Article

abstract

• 2018 Washington University in St. Louis. All rights reserved. Albert Serra's oeuvre is a master exercise intertwined with digital technology and the arts as a whole. His films meticulously embody the symbiosis of the word techn expressed by the ancient Greeks, where no differentiation was made between art and craft. Carefully crafted within the realm of digital, Serra's techn intimately explores cinema's digital capabilities within arts' own intrinsic trans-fluidity: from literature, music, painting, to cinema, and from cinema to the exhibit site, his slow-moving world of images quietly descends upon us, engaging all senses in an awe-inspiring experience. This essay, while referencing various films by Albert Serra, pays particular attention to his film installation La singularitat (Singularity): an exploration of cinema as digital art, cinema as (or in) painting, and cinema as a cinema of exposure and of subtraction.

authors

• Vilaros, Teresa

published proceedings

• REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS

author list (cited authors)

• Vilaros, T. M.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Vilaros, Teresa M

publication date

• June 2018

publisher

• Johns Hopkins University Press  Publisher

published in

• Revista de Estudios Hispanicos -Alabama then St Louis-  Journal

keywords

• Albert Serra
• Artificial Intelligence
• Cinema And The Arts
• Cinema As Painting
• Cinema In Painting
• Cinema Of Subtraction
• Digital Cinema
• Digital Film
• La Singularitat
• Martin Heidegger
• Salvador Dali
• Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1353/rvs.2018.0060

start page

• 375

end page

• 405

volume

• 52

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2018.0060

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education