Course Site for Future Cinema 1 (and sometimes Future Cinema 2: Applied Theory) at York University, Canada
When the David Cronenberg exhibit was presented at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, there was a secondary exhibit taking place upstairs. This exhibit, known as Body Mind Change, was an attempt at creating an alternate reality wherein individuals can take part in an experiment in making their lives better through the installment of a pod (essentially [...]
Tags: altered reality, authenticity, machines, machines are our enemies, podlovesme
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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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