Areas of interest:
1. The play of motion within still images. The play of stasis within moving images.
I love the suspension between the still and the moving image and would argue the impossibility of watching the movement without simultaneously watching the stasis and the media that produce these effects. I feel the hesitation between the still and the moving provides an interval in which meticulous thinking can take place.
2. Zeno's Paradox and the representability of time.
3. The birth and death of photography and film.
Benjamin once suggested that the utopian possibilities of a medium make themselves most visible at the moments of its birth and death.
4. Exploring the affinities between contemporary digital technologies and nineteenth-century photography and cinematography inventions.
New Media does not displace what came before is but rather allows us to see older media in a different light.
5. David Claerbout
I have a ten thousand word dissertation to write. I want to include one or more of my areas of interest. I have yet to think of a way of approaching this. I feel that if I had a Title, one which I could get excited about, I could start from there.
Any suggestions?
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Need really to get more up here Chantelle so that we can support your progress regarding the Essay. Blogging is not everyone's bag as a way of developing thoughts so let me know if that's aproblem but it's very convenient and makes sense for students dealing with New Media methinks.
Sorry its taken so long. I have jotted down some areas of interest. I think I am going to do my Aesthetics essay on Walter Benjamin's 'The work of Art in the Age of mechanical reproduction.'
I guess this will be good background with whatever I choose to do in my dissertation.
Please be patient with me and the blogging. I am hoping that I will get into it, this is a first for me.
had a look - see no more information. talk tomorrow.
Benjamin good yes. Be aware of how different the contexts are between the situation now and when he wrote this. Interesting analogies between how cinema was looked upon in those days and how new media (in particular computer games) are seen as controversial now. also 'all analogies are odious' so there are many genuine differences.
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