Future Cinema

The Future of TV

Hi Everyone!
In a couple of weeks, I will be heading to Cannes for the MIPCOM market. This conference is an international gathering of content producers, consumers, professional executives, academics and even movie stars. As part of my research for this year’s event, I came across this interesting article about the “Future of TV” and I thought of our class. Here’s a link to it: http://www.thewrap.com/why-the-future-of-tv-isnt-tv-guest-blog/
This year’s MIPCOM is focusing on digital production, dissemination and exhibition so I thought this article on television becoming an outdated medium was particularly poignant and worth sharing.

Report on the Media Architecture Summit 2016

Hi Everyone!
Thanks Dave for posting this and for all your great work at the Media Architecture Summit.
There were many great presentations. Here are a few notes on some of the highlights for me:
ALI MOMENI: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Ali spoke about Animating Public Space and, in particular, Urban Projections. He showed us how easy it was to create mobile wall projection kits from bicycles, even backpacks. One project stood out as being uniquely creative: Telepuppet TV. The idea is to create dolls that serve as interviewers who connect with other puppet interviewers around the world. A sample of this fascinating concept can be found here: https://youtu.be/jHb4VRgvTBs.
DI MAINSTONE: Queen Mary University, London
The artist-in-residence at Queen Mary spoke to us about using suspension bridges as musical instruments. Another exploration into using the urban environment in an interactive, artistic way. Here’s her website and check out the video there to see how she “plays” a bridge: http://dimainstone.com/project/human-harp/
GRAHAM WAKEFIELD, Computational Arts, York University. Graham is also the professor of the Future Cinema II course being offered next term for any of those taking it. He spoke being immersed in computational worlds and shared his ambitious project “Archipelago”. He has created a “world” that reacts to human interaction (touch, casting shadows, light, etc.) in much the same way any natural eco-system might (migration, climate change adaptation, forest growth, etc.). Here’s a two-minute video on the project’s installation and how it works: https://vimeo.com/89884439
AMAHL HAZELTON: Moment Factory, Montreal
This ambitious company is responsible for some of the biggest art installations in the world. The installation at LAX airport in Los Angeles is not only expansive and immersive, but it’s also intuitive and interactive. For example, wall-mounted waves of colour sense a traveller passing by and follows or leads them to their gates. This 5-minute video shows how they made it and gives an overview of all the currently existing art pieces there: https://vimeo.com/68789136

Intertesting video game

Hey everyone!

I first heard about this video game called “That Dragon, Cancer” on the podcast ReplyAll and was super moved by the story behind it. I was reminded of it this week while reading our assigned readings and thought it might be of interest to some of you!

It’s a really interesting game because it is based on personal experience and is very narrative-driven.

Here’s the link for the game: http://www.thatdragoncancer.com/#home

Here’s the link for the podcast if you’re interested in giving it a listen: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/50-the-cathedral/

Bogost reading

Thanks, Sula!

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Hi Prof. Fisher,

I found the Ian Bogost reading online. I didn’t see it on the Future Cinema website, so thought other students might find the link useful if you want to post it! :)

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42833

Sula

Media Architecture Summit 2016

Hey everyone, here is the link for the event I was speaking about in class yesterday.

Media Architecture Summit 2016

We’re almost at capacity, so if you’re interested in coming, make sure you register ahead of time.

If you just want to come to the free events, here is the list:

• Thursday, Sept. 29, 5:30pm @ TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 3
  Nuit Talks: Roundtable 1 – Reflections of Oblivion
  Director X (Death of the Sun) and Floria Sigismondi (PNEUMA), discuss their past experiences working in the music and film industries and how these experiences influenced their newly commissioned Nuit Blanche 2016 Projects, working on projection of solar images and water screens.

  Moderator: Theresa Scandiffio, Senior Manager, Adult Learning, TIFF Bell Lightbox

• Friday, Sept. 30, 5:00pm @ TIFF Bell Ligthbox, Cinema 3
  Nuit Talks: Roundtable 2 - Media Architecture and Nuit Blanche Toronto

  A round table discussion exploring the relationship between architecture, public space and media with Nuit Blanche Toronto artists David Rokeby (Hand-held), Jean-Pierre Aubé (Electrosmog Toronto) and Nicola Verlato (The Merge).

  Moderator: Janine Marchessault, Cinema & Media Arts, York University

• Saturday, Oct. 1, 7:00pm @ Church of the Holy Trinity, 19 Trinity Square, Toronto, ON M5G 1B1 (Bay & Dundas)
  Nuit Walk: A Guided Walk Through Nuit Blanche

  Nuit Blanche Toronto is a free, annual, city-wide celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. For one sleepless night, from sunset to sunrise, the familiar is discarded and Toronto is transformed into an artistic playground for a series of exhilarating contemporary art experiences in unexpected public spaces. (Nuit Blanche website – www.nbto.com)

  The Media Architecture Summit has curated a guided walk through Nuit Blanche for all MAS participants. Curated and led by York University PhD candidates David Han and Mason Wales, the walk highlights artworks that resonate with the symposium’s themes, including contributions by MAS 2016 participants. Join us on October 1st at The Church of the Holy Trinity at 7pm as we explore and experience the city of Toronto through a historical and an artistic lens!

Nuit Blanche Toronto is a free, annual, city-wide celebration of contemporary art, produced by the City of Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s arts community. For one sleepless night, from sunset to sunrise, the familiar is discarded and Toronto is transformed into an artistic playground for a series of exhilarating contemporary art experiences in unexpected public spaces.
The Media Architecture Summit has curated a guided walk through Nuit Blanche for all MAS participants. Curated and led by York University PhD candidates David Han and Mason Wales, the walk highlights artworks that resonate with the symposium’s themes, including contributions by MAS 2016 participants. Join us on October 1st (are participants advised to meet you at a specific place/time?) as we explore and experience the city of Toronto through a historical and an artistic

FIVARS: short film “Pearl”

Hi!

Also checking the wordpress site out!
And also wanted to post that short film I saw at Fivars that I was raving about last week called Pearl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCH4DNQBUA

It’s a 360 Google Spotlight Story and I think could accommodate some of the technology (used at Fivars Fest) if you watch this clip using a smartphone, but it won’t allow for full body motion (such as jumping up and looking at the view through the sun roof of the car, like I mentioned).

Abel Gance, Napoleon, 1927

Abel Gance, Napoleon, 1927

Just thought I’d add this given our discussion of the history of multichannel film and expanded cinema last week.  The link is a trailer for the screening/performance that occurred at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA in the spring of 2012. This screening/performance featured a 5.5 hour restoration of Gance’s original film screened a full-length orchestral score composed by Carl Davis, who conducted the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra.

The most striking part of this film is the ending where Gance employs a custom designed, multichannel sequence. He called this technology Polyvision.

This article has some additional information about this screening/performance and this specific restoration of the film.

some links from sept 28th class – screen presentations

Embodied Narratives by BeAnotherLab – TheMachineToBeAnother
http://www.themachinetobeanother.org/?page_id=1270

magic leap – amit to post!

Cicret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYFECMJZRM

Twitch https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bob+ross+twitch

nationwide student day of action

Next class let’s discuss how we’d like to approach this (November 2nd is a Wednesday).

“At its meeting of September 22, 2016 the Senate approved a resolution declaring November 2, 2016 – on which date a nationwide student day of action will be held – a day of academic accommodations with the specific request

that all course directors be asked through the Deans/Principal to: avoid scheduling exams, tests, presentations or other work on that day and to establish reasonable extensions of deadlines for other graded work due that date and to provide reasonable academic accommodations to students who choose to attend the November 2, 2016 Day of Action, including reasonable alternative access to materials covered during their absence.
I ask that you distribute this information widely and quickly so that course directors, other instructors, staff and students are aware of Senate’s decision. Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions about Senate’s declaration or this correspondence.”

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