How to Create a Hologram Onstage

The stage illusion “Pepper’s Ghost” is about 150 years old:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

Here’s a modern high-tech version, which uses a mylar screen instead of glass. Musion’s “Eyeliner” system was the one used to bring Tupac back from the dead at Coachella, and to let Madonna sing with the Gorillaz:

http://www.eyeliner3d.com/musion_eyeliner_setup_video.html

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Future Cinema – 2015

This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.

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