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	Podcast:		Art Critical Lecture Series
	Episode:		Susan Schuppli : Material Witness
	Category:		Arts
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	Publish Date:		2013-03-10 19:00:00
	Description:		This lecture explores the concept of the material witness. By this I mean an object (specifically a media artefact) whose physical properties or technical configuration records evidence of passing events to which it can actively bear witness. Whether these events register as a by-product of an unintentional encounter (the exposure of celluloid film stock to atmospheric radiation at Chernobyl, for instance) or as an expression of direct action (an edit in a digital video sequence documenting destruction in Bosnia), historyand by extension politicsis registered at these junctures of ontological intensity.
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