Came Back Haunted
A theory-fiction about augmented reality gone rogue…
Bachelard, Manovich, and the Poetics of Space (Augmented or Otherwise)
Hello everyone—here is a brief summary and attempted synthesis of the Bachelard and Manovich readings, with a few questions for discussion at the end. Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts and impressions in class! – Seb
Immersense Developer Envisions Gaming Without Visuals (August 27, 2022)
Boston, MA – It was standing-room-only during ZeniMax Media’s keynote presentation at this weekend’s PAX East gaming conference at the Hynes Convention Center. After months of speculation, the Maryland media conglomerate formally announced its new VR gaming system, Immersense. The mix of excitement and apprehension amidst the crowd erupted into a chorus of awe and [...]
Dream Control
I meant to post this a few weeks ago, but when I was a kid I used to pride myself on my ability to control my dreams. To the extent where I was actually manipulating and changing circumstances in my dreams. Also, when I was kid, I saw a story on 20/20 after [...]
Summary: N. Kathryn Hayles, Timely Art: Hybridity in New Cinema and Electronic Poetry”
By Aly Edwards
Cinema and literature have a history of co-habitation, evidence of this is found in the multitude of adaptions, translations and transformations from literature to film and vice versa. The digital computer provides a platform for the two mediums to commingle, transforming literary and cinematic practices.
Hayles expresses the uncertainty in categorizing this practice into [...]
seminar schedule
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GS/FILM 6245
Future Cinema – seminar schedule
Week 3, September 30th Virtual Reality
Oliver Grau, “Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century”
AND/OR
Eduardo Kac “Beyond the Spatial Paradigm: Time and Cinematic form in Holographic Art”
Sarah Stang
Week 4, October 7th, Augmented Reality
Jason [...]
Oral Presentation Summary – Week 3: Virtual reality (Sarah Stang)
Here is the written summary for my presentation on Kac’s article. I’ve provided links to some of the holographic art (they were difficult to find, but I managed to hunt down a few). Questions are at the end.
Eduardo Kac – Beyond the Spatial Paradigm: Time and Cinematic Form in Holographic Art (1995)
-At the time of [...]
Week 4, October 7th, Augmented Reality?
wow – not a single person signed up for this… not even in the top 3! I’ll likely need to assign someone, given the numbers, but before I do… would anyone like to step up to give it a shot? Come on… the Bachelard is old-fashioned,… but poetic and good for you. let me know [...]
Memory Lane
Memory Lane: Short Screens Paper
by Andi Schwartz
Memory Lane is an immersive, multi-projection screening site for telling linear autobiographical narratives. Memoir or autobiography is typically a linear narrative that consists of selected stories from the author/filmmaker’s life that are considered significant to who the author has become. Memory Lane reflects this linearity in [...]
The Cinema of “Utopia”
What would a perfect world look like for you?
What if you could be invincible, immortal, all knowing? What if everyone else was as well? Would you want to be special?
What about your own universe, where you could live your wildest dreams?
All of this would be possible in the future. And possibly before [...]
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