In a more general sense, seriality as an artistic organizational method was in wide use in the middle decades of the century. |
In Smithson's work, seriality involves not pure repetition or reiteration but rather accretion, concretion, and diminution. |
Using a compass to create hundreds of circles in delicate works on paper, Hesse carried Minimalist repetition and seriality to the point of obsession. |
The postcard can be thought of as an ambivalent object, produced between spatial and temporal locations, between seriality and personalization. |
They are desacralized by the process of repetition and make sense only in their own succession, in their own seriality. |
Not only does their very seriality suggest a relentless stream of crime, but the programmes themselves are organised around the repetitive replay of similar footage. |