Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
Here is a link to DOCAM, documentation and conservation of media arts research alliance, initiated by Daniel Langlois
http://www.docam.ca/en/?cat=17
We’ll be in class on march 18th and miss the presentation on Stan Douglas and Kuntsverein but this site is worth checking out for articles and events (ie techwatch update)
Fri, February 29 2008 » Future Cinema 2, community, emerging technologies » No Comments
http://imdb.com/title/tt0880578/
Here’s the Internet Movie Database info on the film Untraceable that I was talking about yesterday in class. I’d really like to see it in order to get an idea of where Hollywood’s online imagination is taking us in terms of terror and surveilance!
Also… Has anyone seen Caitlin’s copy of Chris Marker’s Immemory? I need [...]
Wed, February 27 2008 » Future Cinema 2 » No Comments
Hi Everyone. Little mixup with the printed manuals you may have picked up in the lab, you may notice they are incomplete. The missing pages are printed and in the lab. If you need a copy and happen to be around just ask Pam or myself in 303 and she’ll get one [...]
Wed, February 20 2008 » Future Cinema 2, assignments, outline, projects » No Comments
database cinema example:
http://www.the-national-institute.org/theinst/
http://www.the-national-institute.org/tour/verafrenkel/cv/index.html
Tue, February 19 2008 » Future Cinema, Future Cinema 2, digital cinema, humour, narrative, quicktime, software » No Comments
“…electronic texture is the only one that can deal with sentiment, memory, and imagination.” – Chris Marker
Tue, February 19 2008 » Derrida, Future Cinema 2, Manovich, database, digital cinema, digital storytelling, documentary, globalization, history, narrative » 1 Comment
Hi everyone
tomorrow we’ll be looking at database narrative and we will experiment with the korsakow system. If you have any material that can be played in quicktime — .mov videos, jpgs, quicktime vr etc. — that you would like to experiment with, do consider bringing it to class.
By now you’ve read about database cinema [...]
Mon, February 18 2008 » Future Cinema 2, class admin, database » No Comments
hi everyone just a friendly reminder that proposals for final projects and papers are due tomorrow. hope you all had a great reading week.
Mon, February 18 2008 » Future Cinema 2, class admin » No Comments
GRAU ON THE SCIENCE OF THE IMAGE: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MEDIA ART
The York Digital Dimensions: The Arts and Virtual Culture Advanced Research Seminar is pleased to announce that Oliver Grau, world renowned art historian and scholar, will give this month’s lecture entitled “Media Art Needs Histories and Archives: Image, Immersion, and Emotion” on February 29th [...]
Mon, February 18 2008 » events, talks » No Comments
Just something interesting to kick off reading week… BBC NEWS | Technology | Holographic displays step closer
Sun, February 10 2008 » articles of interest, augmented reality, emerging technologies, projects, scary, screen technologies, virtual reality » No Comments
this might be interesting:
CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS
Lyla Rye
Fly Gallery
1172 Queen St. West, Toronto, ON
February 7 – 28, 2008
During a recent residency, I reconstructed my daughter’s dollhouse out of plastic building blocks. This model of a model became a way to create a home away from home for myself. In my preparations for return, I had to [...]
Thu, February 7 2008 » augmented reality, events » No Comments