NAVIGATION BEYOND VISION

Only a few weeks prior to his untimely death in 2014, Harun Farocki briefly referred to navigation as a contemporary challenge to mo ntageediting distinct sections of film into a continuous sequenceas the dominant paradigm of techno-political visuality. For Farocki, the computer-animated, navigable images that constitute the twenty-first centurys ruling class of images call for new tools of analysis, prompting him to ask: How does the shift from montage to navigation alter the way imagesand artoperate as models of political action and...[Read more]