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• Chantier Barbès-Rochechouart by Pierre Huyghe (1994)

Chantier Barbès-Rochechouart by Pierre Huyghe (1994)

• Sjoukje van der Meulen

• ACADEMIA

  Billboard on a construction site in the center of Paris

  

  Huyghe already addressed issues of presence and witnessing in his early billboard, Chantier Barbès

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  Transmission over a distance

  

  Another interesting aspect of Weber’s analysis of television in this context is that he links the…

• ACADEMIA

  Verfremdungseffect or V-effect

  

  Questions of witnessed presence, then, lie at the core of Huyghe’s billboard. Witnessed presence

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  Witnessing Simulacra

  

  The idea that the new technological media have changed our idea of presence and witnessing has been…