Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
Seeing as gaming is the next topic up – thought some of you might be interested in this CBC doc tomorrow night
GAMER REVOLUTION
Thursday February 1 & 8, 2007 at 8pm on CBC-TV
Anticipation builds in Seoul, South Korea as 20,000 screaming fans await the arrival of their video game idols for the ultimate game-off – Beatlemania [...]
Wed, January 31 2007 » Future Cinema » 1 Comment
CALL FOR PROJECTS
New media creation
Residency program for web art production
SUBMISSION DEADLINE : FEBRUARY 15, 2007
AgenceTOPO.qc.ca
At the crossroad of visual arts, literature and new media
Featuring works of fiction for the web, Agence TOPO supports the convergence of visual arts, literature and new media, the renewal of narrative genres on the web and a presence in the [...]
Tue, January 30 2007 » Future Cinema, projects » No Comments
3SixT
Introduction
Rather than a proposal for a future new screen, this conceptual model is for an entirely new theatrical model. Mixing elements of live theatrical performance, installation art and of course film/video, this new theatre stands as a metaphor for the new globalize world. Embodying notions of multi media, this theater is decentralized, non linear, [...]
Fri, January 26 2007 » screen assignment » No Comments
Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce
From the collection of the Electronic Literature Organization
Pledge Me by Emilty Shultz
An example of non-fiction, GAM3R 7H3ORY by Mckenzie Wark with the Institute for the Future of the Book
Fri, January 26 2007 » Future Cinema » No Comments
This is the technology i was thinking about in relation to jen’s proposed future screen.
take a look!
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/datatile/
Fri, January 26 2007 » Future Cinema » No Comments
interesting to think about this work in relation to the articles we’re reading this week:
heavy industries
Fri, January 26 2007 » digital storytelling » No Comments
We invite submissions for a special issue of The Communication Review on the contribution of communications research to the study of surveillance.
Fri, January 26 2007 » publishing opportunities, surveillance » No Comments
For Games folks – an editor who worked on this CBC documentary strand sent:
It’s called Doc Zone (ugh) and it begins Thurs Feb 1 at 8PM with
“Gamer Revolution” a two-part special on the sociological,
political and cultural impact of computer games.
The second part Feb. 8 deals with multiplayer online games.
Fri, January 26 2007 » games » No Comments
Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce
The Electronic Literature Collection by various authors
Pledge Me by Emily Shultz
And an example of non-fiction from the Future of the Book Institute, GAM3R 7H3ORY by Mckenzie Wark
Fri, January 26 2007 » Future Cinema » No Comments
Last week’s reading by Lev Manovich presented a dichotomy between the form of the database and that of the narrative. In his words, “many new media object do not tell stories; they don’t have beginning or end…’ (Manovich, 1). It is in this context, one in which we presume the supremacy of the database [...]
Thu, January 25 2007 » narrative, seminar summaries » No Comments