postcinema and the anachronistic future digital indexicality

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Title: postcinema and the anachronistic future digital indexicality

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(post)cinema and the anachronistic
futuredigital indexicality

16.11.06

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animating screen space

the pixel
(picture element)
the smallest addressable picture element
discrete, rectangular elements of a TV/computer
screen
patterned in terms of color or shades of gray to
produce an image

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pixel bitmapped vector

raster (bitmapped) graphics
(really pixelmapped)
screen pixels (physical pixels) correspond
directly to stored values (logical pixels)
a stored value for every displayed pixel
painting programs, photo storage
less scalable to higher resolution

vector graphics
image stored as mathematical equation of lines,
curves
computation interprets model
generates display of pixels
extrapolating an line from end points
more easily storable and scalable

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foundations

Bell Labs
early 1960s innovations in computer graphics,
animation, music
Ken Knowlton creates Beflix animation system
(1963)
collaborated with StanVanDerBeek, Lillian
Schwartz, Michael Noll

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frame from Edward Zajac film (satellite orbit)

Bell Labs, 1961 (?) demonstrating satellite orbit

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Michael Noll, Computer composition with lines
(Mondrian approximation)

Bell Labs, 1965

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frame from Stan VanDerBeek/Ken Knowlton, Poem
Field film

Bell Labs, 1967

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foundations

Ivan Sutherland
MIT, later NSA/DARPA, later Utah
Sketchpad (1963)
interactive graphical interface pen/screen
w/ Dave Evans UC Berkeley, pioneered computer
animation

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Lev Manovich

Digital image is no longer indexical
no longer a fundamental, existential, pointed
connection b/t image and referent
image is further detached from referent in
reality
representation more of a process of production
rather than a window onto something

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Lev Manovich

Digital image is no longer indexical
Cinema is the art of the index
points to something
pro-filmic event/reality
referential

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Lev Manovich

Logic of the digital moving image
subordinates the photographic and the cinematic
to the painterly and the graphic, destroying
cinemas identity as a media art

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Lev Manovich

implications of this
painting is key way to understand digital image
troubles idea of digital a progress toward the
future
digital technology does not move us toward
greater realism
(especially if realism means reference to
external phenomena)

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archaeology of moving pictures

procinematic devices Thaumatrope

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archaeology of moving pictures

Phenakistiscope

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archaeology of moving pictures

Zootrope

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Lev Manovich

Digital
towards the painterly
increases plasticity (manipulable forms)
return of the repressed of graphic animation
yet still attempting to create realism (reality
effect)
counterintuitive approach

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Lev Manovich

Digital cinema is not the same as digital video
cinema more of a complete practice and
experience
video a specific element of digital cinema

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Lev Manovich

Developing a medium ontology
the essential qualities of a medium
a way to distinguish it from other media

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Lev Manovich

Manovichs Little Movies (1994-97)
the history of cinema through the new digital
rendering
http//www.manovich.net/little-movies/menu3.html

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is the index really gone?

computer interface (gui) fundamentally indexical
all the things we call icons are really
indices they point to applications etc.
the arrow and the finger

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is the index really gone?

just because an image is converted to data does
not mean that the pointing function is
eliminated
surveillance video and webcams highlight the
importance of a fundamental connection between
image and referent

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is the index really gone?

Jeffrey Shaw, Zoe Beloff, Lars von Trier
examples of new forms of indexicality new ways
in which the relationship between the figure and
the medium is important
environment pointing/clicking multicamera
location shooting

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Jeffrey Shaw