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Maria Walsh is an art critic, writer, and academic specializing in contemporary art and film theory. She teaches at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and has published widely on aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and moving image art.
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Future Frames
Future Frames is a scholarly exploration of contemporary art and moving image practices, examining how artists engage with time, memory, and subjectivity through video and film. Maria Walsh analyzes works by key figures in the field, situating them within philosophical and psychoanalytic frameworks to reveal how the moving image reshapes our understanding of identity and perception.
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Historical Context
To grasp why contemporary moving image art matters, we must look back at its genealogies. In the 1960s and 1970s, video art emerged as a radical intervention against cinematic convention and television’s mass culture. Artists like Nam June Paik and Vito Acconci were among the first to use video to q...
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Theoretical Frameworks
Philosophy and psychoanalysis form the undercurrent of my approach throughout *Future Frames*. From Bergson, I borrow the notion of duration—not as measured clock-time but as lived time, an unfolding that resists segmentation. Bergson’s concept helps us see how moving image art, particularly slow ci...
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About Maria Walsh
Maria Walsh is an art critic, writer, and academic specializing in contemporary art and film theory. She teaches at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and has published widely on aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and moving image art.
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