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Item Details
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SOFT CINEMA
NAVIGATING THE DATABASE |
| By: |
Lev Manovich, Andreas Kratky |
| Format: |
DVD video |
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
026213456X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262134569 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
20 May, 2005 |
| Series: |
Soft Cinema |
| Pages: |
40 |
| Description: |
Leading artists from different cultural fields collaborate on three films that explore the aesthetic possibilities of computer-driven cinema. |
| Synopsis: |
What kind of cinema is appropriate for the age of Palm Pilot and Google? Automatic surveillance and self-guided missiles? Consumer profiling and CNN? To investigate this question, Lev Manovich, one of today's most influential thinkers in the fields of media arts and digital culture, paired with award-winning new media artist and designer Andreas Kratky. They have also invited contributions from leaders in other cultural fields: DJ Spooky, Scanner, George Lewis, and Johann Johannsson (music), servo (architecture), Schoenerwissen/OfCD (information visualization), and Ross Cooper Studios (media design).The results of their three-year explorations are the three "films" presented on this DVD. Although the films resemble the familiar genres of cinema, the process by which they were created demonstrates the possibilities of soft(ware) cinema. A "cinema," that is, in which human subjectivity and the variable choices made by custom software combine to create films that can run infinitely without ever exactly repeating the same image sequences, screen layouts and narratives.Mission to Earth, a science fiction allegory of the immigrant experience, adopts the variable choices and multi-frame layout of the Soft Cinema system to represent "variable identity." Absences is a lyrical black and white narrative that relies on algorithms normally deployed in military and civilian surveillance applications to determine the editing of video and audio. Texas, a "database narrative," assembles its visuals, sounds, narratives, and even the identities of its characters, from multiple databases. The DVD was designed so that every viewing of each film generates a different version. |
| Illustrations: |
40 colour illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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