Of Trees and Clouds
Software-Mediated Visions in Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking Practices
Seiten
2020
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1. Edition
V&R unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8471-1130-6 (ISBN)
V&R unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8471-1130-6 (ISBN)
Breaking with the lure of timelines, final cuts and authorial control
Software-based technologies deeply saturate our everyday lives. Consequently, they also influence the ways we see and mediate the world. In fact, the ease and flexibility software provides implies a shift in control. Digital media mediates itself, turning software into a co-author. Yet, the potentials of such a co-authorship are still largely constrained by conventions stemming from the need to run strips of celluloid through a projector. This book demonstrates how software can retrain filmmakers' visions of the world - from branching trees to the shifting contours of clouds. It does so by ethnographically studying one particular technology, the Korsakow System. The result is a methodology for interrogating established software regimes; a task increasingly in need of anthropological attention.
Software-based technologies deeply saturate our everyday lives. Consequently, they also influence the ways we see and mediate the world. In fact, the ease and flexibility software provides implies a shift in control. Digital media mediates itself, turning software into a co-author. Yet, the potentials of such a co-authorship are still largely constrained by conventions stemming from the need to run strips of celluloid through a projector. This book demonstrates how software can retrain filmmakers' visions of the world - from branching trees to the shifting contours of clouds. It does so by ethnographically studying one particular technology, the Korsakow System. The result is a methodology for interrogating established software regimes; a task increasingly in need of anthropological attention.
Dr Franziska Weidle holds a PhD in visual anthropology. Her academic and creative work focuses on digital knowledge practices including documentary, serious games and instructional design.
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.05.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | with 22 figures |
Verlagsort | Göttingen |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 446 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | digital anthropology • digital materiality • Documentary • ethnographic filmmaking • interactive documentary • non-representational theory • Science and Technology Studies • skilled visions • Software Studies • Visual Anthropology |
ISBN-10 | 3-8471-1130-2 / 3847111302 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-8471-1130-6 / 9783847111306 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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