Future Cinema

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

online readings

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Janine Marchessault “Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67” (Fluid Screens)

Steve Callwood and Mark Fiala “About Augmented reality”

“The way we live now: the screening of America”> New York Times Magazine
Peter Weibel “Preface” (Future Cinema text)
Janine Marchessault “Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67” (Fluid Screens)
Timothy Murray “Digitality and the memory of Cinema: Bearing the Losses of the Digital Code”

Haidee Wasson “The networked Screen: Moving Images, materiality and the Aesthetics of size” (Fluid)
Josef Svoboda “Polyvision” (FC– course website)
Peter Weibel “Expanded Cinema” (FC– course website)
Randall Packer “Pepsi Pavillion” (FC– course website)
Andre Bazin “Myth of Total Cinema”
New York Times Magazine: the Screen issue < http ://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/11/23/magazine/index.html>

Sobcheck, “Morphing” (preview)

Oliver Grau, “Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century

Anne-Marie Duguet “Jeffrey Shaw: from expanded cinema to virtual reality”

Eduardo Kac “Beyond the Spatial Paradigm: Time and Cinematic form in Holographic Art

Domefest: www.domefest.org
Screening: Daniel Reeves Obsessive Becoming (US 1995)

Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18789131/Calvino-Italo-Invisible-cities

Steve Dixon “Liquid Architectures and site-specific fractures in reality” Digital Performance A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Anne Friedberg “THE SCREEN and Lens IV: Virilio’s Screen”

Blair McIntyre, Jay Bolter, Maribeth Gandy “Presence and the Aura of Meaningful Places”

Fullerton — get the book. some info here: http://books.google.ca/books/about/Game_design_workshop.html?id=OjIYWtqWxtAC

Bachelard – Poetics of Space get the book! some quotations to tease you here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8276.Gaston_Bachelard

Adriene Jenik and Sarah Lewison “Moving in Place The Question of Distributed Social Cinema” in Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives

HyeRyoung Ok, “Cinema in your hand, Cinema on the street: The Aesthetics of Korean Cinema” Public 40

Michael Longford: “Territory as Interface: Design for Mobile Experiences” Wi, 2.1

HyeRyoung Ok, “Cinema in your hand, Cinema on the street: The Aesthetics of Korean Cinema” Public 40

Norman M. Klein, “Spaces Between Traveling through Bleeds, Apertures, and Wormholes inside the Database Novel” in Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives — coming

Carolyn Handler Miller , “Immersive environments” in Digital storytelling : a creator’s guide to interactive entertainment” (CW)

Anne Friedberg “The Multiple” (CW)

Henry Lowood: “Warcraft Adventures: Texts, Replay, and Machinima in a Game-Based Storyworld” in Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives

Olli Sotamaa “Computer Game Modding, Intermediality and Participatory Culture“Computer Game Modding, Intermediality and Participatory Culture”

Michael Nitsche, ‘Film live: And Excursion into Machinima” in: Developing Interactive Narrative Content: sagas_sagasnet_reader, ed. by Brunhild Bushoff (Munich: High Text, 2005), 210-243

Janine Marchessault “Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67” (Fluid Screens)

Steve Callwood and Mark Fiala “About Augmented reality”

“The way we live now: the screening of America”> New York Times Magazine

Roderick Coover “Contiguity, Continuity And Panoramas In Cross-Cultural Representation”

Steve Dixon “Virtual Reality and the search for immersion” in Digital Performance
A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Mscapes http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/17580/

Korsakow: http://www.mediamatic.net/article-6187-en.html

Steve Dixon “Performing Interactivity”
Carolyn handler miller “interactive Cinema” Digital storytelling : a creator’s guide to interactive entertainment

Espen Aarseth “Ergodic texts”

Rick Mitchell The tragedy of 3D Cinema

A Step Toward the Future of Cinema http://www.film.com/features/story/step-toward-future-of-cinema/17247225 >
“Canadians create 3D application for iphone”

visualization news

“Moviestorm opens up the world of digital 3D animation to moviemakers who have little or no experience”
www.moviestorm.co.uk/

screen: Making of Radiohead’s house of cards: http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
“No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images:
Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.”

Peter Weibel “Preface” (Future Cinema text)
Janine Marchessault “Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67” (Fluid Screens)
Timothy Murray “Digitality and the memory of Cinema: Bearing the Losses of the Digital Code”

Haidee Wasson “The networked Screen: Moving Images, materiality and the Aesthetics of size” (Fluid)
Josef Svoboda “Polyvision” (FC– course website)
Peter Weibel “Expanded Cinema” (FC– course website)
Randall Packer “Pepsi Pavillion” (FC– course website)
Andre Bazin “Myth of Total Cinema”
New York Times Magazine: the Screen issue < http ://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/11/23/magazine/index.html>

Recommended:
Oliver Grau, “Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century”
Anne-Marie Duguet “Jeffrey Shaw: from expanded cinema to virtual reality”
Eduardo Kac “Beyond the Spatial Paradigm: Time and Cinematic form in Holographic Art”
Domefest: www.domefest.org
Screening: Daniel Reeves Obsessive Becoming (US 1995)

Italo Calvino Invisible Cities
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18789131/Calvino-Italo-Invisible-cities

Steve Dixon “Liquid Architectures and site-specific fractures in reality” Digital Performance A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Anne Friedberg “THE SCREEN and Lens IV: Virilio’s Screen”

Blair McIntyre, Jay Bolter, Maribeth Gandy “Presence and the Aura of Meaningful Places”

Fullerton — get the book. some info here: http://books.google.ca/books/about/Game_design_workshop.html?id=OjIYWtqWxtAC

Bachelard – Poetics of Space get the book! some quotations to tease you here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8276.Gaston_Bachelard

Adriene Jenik and Sarah Lewison “Moving in Place The Question of Distributed Social Cinema” in Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives

HyeRyoung Ok, “Cinema in your hand, Cinema on the street: The Aesthetics of Korean Cinema” Public 40

Michael Longford: “Territory as Interface: Design for Mobile Experiences” Wi, 2.1

Norman M. Klein, “Spaces Between Traveling through Bleeds, Apertures, and Wormholes inside the Database Novel” in Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives

Carolyn Handler Miller , “Immersive environments” in Digital storytelling : a creator’s guide to interactive entertainment” (CW)

Anne Friedberg “The Multiple” (CW)

Henry Lowood: “Warcraft Adventures: Texts, Replay, and Machinima in a Game-Based Storyworld” in Third Person Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives

Olli Sotamaa “Computer Game Modding, Intermediality and Participatory Culture“Computer Game Modding, Intermediality and Participatory Culture”

Michael Nitsche, ‘Film live: And Excursion into Machinima” in: Developing Interactive Narrative Content: sagas_sagasnet_reader, ed. by Brunhild Bushoff (Munich: High Text, 2005), 210-243

Janine Marchessault “Multi-Screens and Future Cinema: The Labyrinth Project at Expo 67” (Fluid Screens)

Steve Callwood and Mark Fiala “About Augmented reality”

“The way we live now: the screening of America”> New York Times Magazine

Roderick Coover “Contiguity, Continuity And Panoramas In Cross-Cultural Representation”

Steve Dixon “Virtual Reality and the search for immersion” in Digital Performance
A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation

Mscapes http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/17580/

Korsakow: http://www.mediamatic.net/article-6187-en.html

Steve Dixon “Performing Interactivity”
Carolyn handler miller “interactive Cinema” Digital storytelling : a creator’s guide to interactive entertainment

Espen Aarseth “Ergodic texts”

Rick Mitchell The tragedy of 3D Cinema

A Step Toward the Future of Cinema http://www.film.com/features/story/step-toward-future-of-cinema/17247225 >
“Canadians create 3D application for iphone”

visualization news

“Moviestorm opens up the world of digital 3D animation to moviemakers who have little or no experience”
www.moviestorm.co.uk/

screen: Making of Radiohead’s house of cards: http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
“No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images:
Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.”

Martha Kinder “Designing a Database Cinema”
Lev Manovich “Soft Cinema (FC)
Lev Manovich “database as a symbolic form” (online)
Chris Marker “Immemory” (FC)
Thomas Elsaesser, “The New Film History as Media Archeology”

http://interactive.usc.edu/research/games/
Espen Aarseth “Ergodic texts”
Noah Wardrip-Fruin First Person : New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
intro
chapter 1
Jullian Stallabrass “Just Gaming”
Burnett, “Computer Games”
“Massively Multiplayer Online Games” — I have a hard copy of this to hand out. You may also wish to check out a lecture based on the paper here — real player. The lecture is a couple of minutes in — the piece starts with another presenter.

Kathy Rae Huffman “Video, networks and Architecture; some physical realities of electronic space”
Deleuze “Conclusions” (Cinema II—The Time Image)
Sabine Himmelsbach “The Interactive Potential of Distributed Networks”
Blast Theory Can you see me now? Barcelona
Blast Theory’s award-winning chase game, played live online and on the streets
Steven Shaviro “Connected”
Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication,
WASSON, “THE NETWORKED SCREEN”

    Fluid Screens

Week 10, November 18th, Digital Cinema/animation

Angela Ndalianis, “Virtuosity, Special-Effects Spectacles and Architectures of the Senses”, Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment

Lev Manovich “What is digital cinema?”
Vivian Sobchack “Nostalgia for Digital Object”
Ron Burnett, “Reanimating the World”
Sean Cubitt, “Vectors of Effect”

Recommended:

Lev Manovich Little Movies (online)
Nora Barry “Telling Stories on Screen: A History of Web Cinema” (Future Cinema) 

Galloway “Tactical Media” in Protocol;
Gloria Sutton “Stan Vanderbecks Movie Dome”;
History and Histrionics: Vision Machine’s digital poetics
Gene Youngblood “A Manifesto for the Internet”

http://del.icio.us/tag/ITP_Tactical_Media
Norman Klein “The Future of the Cinematic City” (FC)