Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
In Ergodic texts, Espen Aarseth talks about how trying to understand ergodic texts by traditional standards is not possible, because they are doing different things (aphoria vs ambiguity, for example). How do we keep from falling into that same tendency with future cinema, by comparing it too rigidly to traditional or familiar film practices?
Wed, November 8 2017 » Future Cinema
This course examines the shift from traditional cinematic spectacle to works probing the frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Drawing upon a broad range of scholarship, including film theory, communication studies, cultural studies and new media theory, the course will consider how digital technologies are transforming the semiotic fabric of contemporary visual culture. Our focus will be on the phenomenon Gene Youngblood described three decades ago as expanded cinema an explosion of the frame outward towards immersive, interactive and interconnected (i.e., environmental) forms of culture.
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