Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
In this article, Rick Mitchell goes through the trajectory of 3-D cinema through the ages and labels the medium as a historical failure. He charts the history of 3-D through the studio system in the U.S and focuses on each studio’s hits and misses. Mitchell looks to a 50th celebration of the Introduction of CineScope [...]
Mon, November 30 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:04:23 -0500
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Hello all,
Thanks so much to Timothy and Renate for inviting me to join you with a report of The Internet as Playground and Factory conference, which I convened at The New School two weeks [...]
Tue, November 24 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments
The Falconer
Chris Petit/Iain Sinclair, UK, 1997, 56 mins
Review by Andrew Hedgecock
http://www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk/filmsaf/falconer.htm
‘A documentary investigation into the lives and careers of Peter Lorrimer Whitehead’. A potpourri of savage images, arcane knowledge, secret stories, half-forgotten history and myth, The Falconer is the filmic equivalent of a Tarot pack. And it offers the same multiplicity of readings.
Originally entitled The [...]
Tue, November 24 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments
Came across an interesting meshing of augmented reality and video games:
The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character [...]
Tue, November 24 2009 » augmented reality » No Comments
Murad Ahmed, Technology Reporter, and Rob Fahey
When it began it was just a computer game. Now it is seen as a cultural force that sparks love affairs, breaks marriages and creates “sweat shops” to satisfy a black market in virtual goods.
World of Warcraft marks its fifth birthday today as something more than just an online [...]
Mon, November 23 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » 1 Comment
In the introduction of Henry Lowood’s article Warcraft Adventures: Texts, Replay, and Machinima in a Game Based World (2009), the reader finds herself in the midst of the fierce final battle of the “Video Game Olympics,” in San Francisco in 2004. This battle between a Korean and a Dutch contestant takes place in the real [...]
Sun, November 22 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments
(WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE IN CLIP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BAM9fgV-ts
For the uninitiated- this is an extremely popular show using characters from the game Halo with voices added.
Thu, November 19 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments
http://www.tobi.com/
-click on the “Enter Dressing Room” option on the “Try it On” section
Through the use of a webcam you can try on clothes without leaving your house.
Thu, November 19 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » 1 Comment
Presentation on Espen Aarseth’s “Ergodic Literature”: an Etymological Intervention
Espen Aarseth’s “Ergodic Literature” is the introductory essay to his book Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (1997), in which he describes the distinctive forms of engagement that are required by ergodic literature, those texts whose consumption entails “nontrivial effort” (1), i.e., more than mere “eye movement and [...]
Wed, November 18 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » No Comments
Tue, November 17 2009 » Futurecinema_2009 » 2 Comments