Harun Farocki: Imagination At Work

Exhibition details

Curation

Antje Ehmann

Date

28/2/13-25/5/13

Location

Helen J. Haft and J. David Haft Hall (upper level)
Main Building

The exhibition aligns three video installations by German artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki (born 1944 in Neutitschein, German-annexed Czechoslovakia, today Nový Jicín, Czech Republic). All dealing with imagination and memory and the status of the image: Transmission (2007)— imagining magic: the documentary image; Serious Games I and III (2009, 2010)—imagining the theatre of war: the documentary and the animated image; and Parallel (2012)—imagining new worlds: the computer game image.

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