Rumour and Radiation

In Rumour and Radiation, Paul Hegarty provides novel insight into and strong evidence of the audiovisual nature of video arts as it turns out to play a key role in contemporary crossmedia practices. His arguments are convincing: that sound and image in video are different yet connected to each other. His many examples are fascinating, particularly the importance of sounds in the creation of spatial effects in video works where the artists, like Bruce Nauman, Jane and Louise Wilson, Christian Marclay, or Ryoji Ikeda, explore materials and perceptions across usual borders. With this study, Hegarty challenges our understanding of hearing and seeing and gives us a comprehensive account of intermedial and synaesthetic exchanges in the artistic practices of sound and visual materials. From video installations in the nineties to large scale projections and datastreaming of encoded information in today's expanded media environments, the book's discoursive approach brilliantly bridges the gap between sound and visual studies. This work is an illuminating source that sets a new tone for readjustments and critical engagement with multi-sensorial processes in our still predominantly 'visually' conceived culture. * Yvonne Spielmann, Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, author of Video. The Reflexive Medium (2008) and Hybrid Culture (2013) *