Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
All the required texts for this week (Hayles/Bush/Aarseth) were written ‘conventionally’. Why didn’t they attempt to articulate any of the methodologies they were advocating?
Why can’t narrative be conceived as a database, perhaps one that is more suited to the functioning of the human brain? Perhaps we need ambiguity (This is discussed to some extent @ around page 287 in the Hayles, but could be taken further IMO)?
Wed, November 8 2017 » Future Cinema
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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