The Role of the Medium in the Appreciation of the Art of Television
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 24 October 2014 - Friday, 24 October 2014
- Time:
- 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Room:
- E302
- UQ Location:
- Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- www.uq.edu.au/hprc
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Lesley Burnett
- Phone:
- 56320
- Email:
- lesley.burnett@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Dr Ted Nannicelli's (UQ) Philosophy Seminar will discuss how, on the one hand, it is common to find in popular criticism claims to the effect that we are in the midst of a new Golden Age of television. On the other hand, however, it is common to encounter in academic discourse claims regarding the end of television or, at least, the disappearance of television as it converges with a variety of other media in the digital age. What accounts for the currency of these apparently mutually exclusive claims, and what should we make of the paradox? The temptation, I suspect, is to accept the truth of one and deny the truth of the other. However, it is important to recognize the possibility that the paradox is merely apparent rather than real. The question is whether both claims involve the same conception of television. I think they do not. Rather, the critics who claim we are in a new Golden Age of television are referring to television as an art, while scholars who speculate on the disappearance of television have in mind television as a medium (on a rather narrow construal of “medium”). Still, if scholars are right about the disappearance or, at least, convergence of the television medium with other media, then the concept of “the art of television” might seem to be similarly threatened. For it seems plausible that, if there is an art of television, it is partly constituted by the television medium. Therefore, my first goal in this paper, before I argue for a distinction between the medium of television and the art of television, is simply to establish that there is in fact a medium of television distinct from a broader class of, say, moving image media. From there, I move on to address two additional questions: “Does our appreciation of television as an art in any way depend upon particular features of the television medium? If so, how and what features?
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