@article{1412403,
      recid = {1412403},
      author = {Schuppli, Susan,},
      title = {Material witness : media, forensics, evidence /},
      pages = {1 online resource (392 pages).},
      abstract = {The evidential role of matter--when media records trace  evidence of violence--explored through a series of cases  drawn from Kosovo, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In this  book, Susan Schuppli introduces a new operative concept:  material witness, an exploration of the evidential role of  matter as both registering external events and exposing the  practices and procedures that enable matter to bear  witness. Organized in the format of a trial, Material  Witness  moves through a series of cases that provide  insight into the ways in which materials become contested  agents of dispute around which stake holders gather. These  cases include an extraordinary videotape documenting the  massacre at Izbica, Kosovo, used as war crimes evidence  against Slobodan Miloševic; the telephonic transmission of  an iconic photograph of a South Vietnamese girl fleeing an  accidental napalm attack; radioactive contamination  discovered in Canada's coastal waters five years after the  accident at Fukushima Daiichi; and the ecological media or  "disaster film" produced by the Deep Water Horizon oil  spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Each highlights the degree to  which a rearrangement of matter exposes the contingency of  witnessing, raising questions about what can be known in  relationship to that which is seen or sensed, about who or  what is able to bestow meaning onto things, and about whose  stories will be heeded or dismissed. An artist-researcher,  Schuppli offers an analysis that merges her creative  sensibility with a forensic imagination rich in technical  detail. Her goal is to relink the material world and its  affordances with the aesthetic, the juridical, and the  political.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1412403},
}