Palpable History

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Ross Gibson

Abstract

The article focuses on the essence of non-verbal and palpable historiography. It discusses some screen effects in an artwork called Street X-Rays and cites that viewers at the exhibition could think about the historical feeling rather than its meaning and that although the kinetic event is gone, one could imagine its continuity. Moreover, it is noted that the conditions of living and working in an aftermath-culture like Australia provides that the vital evidence is either missing or non-textual.

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Author Biography

Ross Gibson, University of Technology Sydney

Ross Gibson is Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney. His publications include Remembrance and the Moving Image (2003) and Seven Versions of an Australian Badland (2002).