Future Cinema

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

DBZ anyone? The mini-hologram I mentioned in class.

I think thats what it is anyway.
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~Sarah

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Wed, September 30 2015 » future cinema 2015 » 2 Comments

seminar schedule

click here for a pdf of the seminar schedule (opens in new window)
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 [...]

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diy hologram

DIY hologram
anyone want to build one?

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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 [...]

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Mon, September 28 2015 » Future Cinema 2, assignments, seminar summaries, virtual reality » No Comments

HBO Films Developing Interactive Way of Engaging with a Contemporary Audience

Steven Soderbergh and HBO are teaming up to create an interactive cinematic experience that lets you choose the outcome via an app. Read the link below for more:
http://collider.com/steven-soderbergh-making-secret-hbo-movie-mosaic-sharon-stone-garrett-hedlund/
- Cody Pentzos

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Fri, September 25 2015 » future cinema 2015 » No Comments

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 [...]

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Thu, September 24 2015 » seminar schedule » No Comments

Show &tell sign-up, 2015

Assignment 4: show and tell 5% (pass/fail)
As the name suggests – at the beginning of each class at least one of you is invited to share a work that resonates with the course – a film or game that you admire, an installation you saw, technology in the news that we should all see [...]

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Thu, September 24 2015 » future cinema 2015 » 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Wed, September 23 2015 » Future Cinema, future cinema 2015, screen assignment » No Comments

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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Wed, September 23 2015 » assignments, augmented reality, future cinema 2015, games, screen assignment, screen technologies, virtual reality » No Comments

That Minority Report screen everybody keeps referencing

Minority Report UI Innovation analysis from Philippe DEWOST on Vimeo.

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Wed, September 23 2015 » augmented reality, future cinema 2015, interfaces, screen technologies » No Comments