Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
(1) With the Internet we have both ephemerality and the insta-archive: a luxury not always enjoyed by historical radical movements. Can the proximity and ease of an institutional memory represent a meaningful paradigm shift for tactical media explorations?
(2) Discuss the strange case of the CAE and FBI investigation into bioterrorism.
3) The dismembered body and contagion as operative metaphors for the Web.
Wed, April 29 2009 » Futurecinema_2009, assignments
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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