Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
I would like to share an interesting NYT article about the “Vook.” What sounds like a Star Wars character is, in fact, a multimedia hybrid between books and videos. I thought you all might find that interesting. Have a good weekend.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Fri, October 2 2009 » Futurecinema_2009
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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Thanks so much for posting this. Really interesting… but it all seems a bit conservative, to me, when read against more experimental electronic literature. what do others think?