Expanded Visions: A New Anthropology of the Moving Image, by Arnd Schneider

As an anthropologist and contemporary artist working in analogue film for both cinematic exhibition installation writing publishing within anthropology cinema studies, one of my ongoing frustrations has been the lack true understanding between these disciplines other’s languages, practices, history training practitioners. On each side there is a major failure to see comprehend as valuable epistemological strategies. Artists those who write about them tend deploy term ethnographic adjective mean practically anything do with culture or whatever they may by that (e.g. Catherine Russell). other hand, anthropologists uncritically exoticise artists purport admire, research work with, treating their material methods ways knowing exotic individual rather than product years disciplinary study, enmeshed participating deep cultural, community-based traditions well dialogue broader aesthetic technological histories.