Future Cinema

Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada

Links & 4 Questions about Isbister

Hi all! Some links following up on last week’s discussion of the algorithmically created artwork: a sort of generic article detailing how it sold WAY over initial prices of $7-10,000 – https://www.cnn.com/style/article/obvious-ai-art-christies-auction-smart-creativity/index.html ; as well, here is art critic Jerry Saltz’s response to the sale – http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/an-artificial-intelligence-artwork-just-sold-for-usd400-000.html#comments . I think his thoughts are interesting in [...]

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Fri, October 26 2018 » Future Cinema, Web 2.0, art+science labs, articles of interest, augmented reality, community, emerging technologies, games, history, narrative, performance, remix/mashup, virtual reality » 1 Comment

Data-mining your childhood

Inspired by our discussion today… The Wilderness Downtown takes the address of the place where you grew up and sources images from Google Maps and Street View to tailor an HTML5 music video of Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” to “your own” childhood memories. Here’s a behind-the-scenes video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKg2HJ_qvKA
And here’s the actual interactive site, which requires the [...]

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Wed, November 11 2015 » database, dreams, future cinema 2015, interactivity, remix/mashup, surveillance » 2 Comments

Tomorrow morning: Database Cinema event

FYI all, there is a lecture on Database Cinema tomorrow in Nat Taylor Cinema. I was reminded of this in my New Media: The Database course and thought I’d invite people here. ;-)
Thursday, Feb. 2 @ 9:30am-12:30pm in Nat Taylor Cinema (N R102)Lee Knuttila, the course director, will conduct a short lecture and screen the [...]

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Wed, February 1 2012 » database, digital cinema, documentary, events, remix/mashup, talks » No Comments

what are your favourite diy practices?

hi everyone
i thought it would be great tomorrow if you could all come ready to talk about favourite diy practices, groups … any new and interesting distribution models + how any of this has affected your own work.
and take a look at this article posted to rhizome last week – “After the Amateur: [...]

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Tue, May 5 2009 » Futurecinema_2009, remix/mashup » No Comments

Space Invaders meets Foucault

Here’s an intersting twist on a couple of very different classics. It’s a fun game, but Foucault seems to win every time! Hmmmm….
“A playable on-line re-creation of the ATARI classic, ‘Space Invaders’ where instead of fending off pixelly alien invaders, you must defend yourself against paragraphs of philosophical text taken from Michel Foucault’s essay, [...]

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Sat, April 7 2007 » games, remix/mashup » No Comments

swarm of angels

http://www.aswarmofangels.com/
“A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over 1 million people using the Internet and a global community of members”

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Thu, March 8 2007 » community, digital cinema, distributed networks, publishing opportunities, remix/mashup » No Comments

addictive tv 2 — eye of the pilot

this is a really lovely project.
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‘Dans l’Oeil du Pilote’ ['The Eye of the Pilot'] is the live cinema performance project by UK audiovisual group Addictive TV featuring French guitarist Alejandro de Valera. Taking the form of an aerial travelogue, the project remixes the incredible 8mm colour archive of French airline pilot Raymond Lamy, filmed [...]

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Tue, February 20 2007 » early cinema, performance, remix/mashup, sound/music » No Comments

addictive tv – remix culture

www.addictive.com
Fusing electronic music and the moving image, Mixmasters brings together some of the most innovative DJs, VJs, audiovisual artists, music producers and motion graphics artists from around the world to create a stunning collection of audiovisual mixes.
AUDIOVISUALIZE
Although working in an area with a rich but relatively little-known history, today’s audiovisual artists perhaps owe as much [...]

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Tue, February 20 2007 » animation, performance, remix/mashup, sound/music » No Comments