MITJA KOTOMAJ

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• MITJA KOTOMAJ
• Faculty of the Arts
• Thames Valley University
• Time Based Imaging
• http//mercury.tvu.ac.uk/mitja/timebased/
• Owning the medium Spatiotemporal possibilities
  for shots

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Time Based Imaging

• Today
• Owning the medium a refusal of the values of
  Hollywood, LOW Tech approach to video
• How Hollywood borrows from experimental
  artists from Matrix and Spider Man, to Memento
  and Greenaway
• Spatiotemporal possibilities for shots
• Next week
• Please bring webcams for Eyesweb tutorial

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Before the lecture

• Any issues or questions re TBI
• Revealed how you built the face of Sydney
• http//www.smh.com.au/news/national/revealed-the-f
  ace-of-sydney/2006/10/05/1159641464886.html
• www.nikonsmallworld.com

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Owning the medium

• Owning the medium a refusal of the values of
  Hollywood, LOW Tech approach to video.
• Deconstruct a Hollywood movie of your choice?
• Story, character, place, time

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Hollywood vs experimental art

• How Hollywood borrows from experimental
  artists
• Examples Matrix, Spider Man, Memento and
  Greenaway.
• High budget context is problematic for
  experimentation.

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The Matrix

• Bullet time sequence
• whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/sfx-bullet_fram
  es.html
• C\Program Files\East Bay Technologies\WebGrab!\Do
  wnload

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The Matrix Short history of Bullet time

• In 19th century Edweard Muybridge
• 1988 - Katshuiro Otomo's Akira http//www.imdb.com
  /title/tt0094625/
• 1980s Jim Blashfield (12 cameras) Paul Simon
  video The boy in the Bubble http//www.youtube.c
  om/watch?vtmv74TwqRyImoderelatedsearch
• 1990s Tim MacMillan Timeslice
• 1994 Dayton Taylor patented Timetrack (160
  lenses)
• 1995 Michel Gondry Rolling Stones video Like a
  Rolling Stone
• 1999 John Gaetta The Matrix

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The Matrix

• Bullet time whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/cmp/sfx
  -bullet_frames.html

Louis Aimé Augustin (Edmée Auguste) Le Prince
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The Matrix

• Muybridge
• inventor of moving images,
• - animation

http//www.masters-of-photography.com/M/muybridge/
muybridge.html
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The Matrix

• Machines for presentation

http//web.inter.nl.net/users/anima/optical/index.
html
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The Matrix

• In 1990 experimental video artists went back to
  Muybridge and ideas and technologies of
  pre-cinema era and started to use it in a
  different way.

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The Matrix
The Rolling Stones "Like a Rolling
Stone Director Michel GondryProduction
Partizan Midi Minuit

• http//www.director-file.com/gondry/stones1.html

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The Matrix

• In 1990 experimental video artists went back to
  Muybridge and ideas and technologies of
  pre-cinema era and started to use it in a
  different way.
• http//sequences.org.uk/ Trackorama
  http//www.paulstgeorge.com/

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Spider Man II

• Stelarc EXOSKELETON
• www.stelarc.va.com.au/
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Directed by Sam Raimi
• www.imdb.com/title/tt0316654/

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Greenaway

• The Pillow Book (1996) www.imdb.com/title/tt011413
  4/
• Chapter 6 4900

Multimedia
Film
Text
Sound
Transition
Background
Windows
Video
Animation
Images
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Memento

• Memento (2000) Directed by Christopher Nolan

Story
Film
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Spatiotemporal possibilities - Photography

• Tim McMillan http//www.timeslicefilms.com/,
  http//www.timeslicefilms.com/chronology_f.html
• http//www.picture-this.org.uk/pub_mcmillan.htm,
  http//sequences.org.uk/artists/Tim_Macmillan/inde
  x.html,
• Martin Newth http//www.martinnewth.com/
• Andrea Polli http//sequences.org.uk/artists/Andre
  a_Polli/index.html
• Technology
• Scanner, Camera, Camcorder
• Webcam Flash
• file///C/Documents20and20Settings/MITJA20KOST
  OMAJ/My20Documents/flash820workshop/my20files/t
  imebased20effects/video_09-4flip.swf
• Eyesweb (filmstrip)
• PhotoVista PhotoShop
• http//www.digitalair.com/techniques/
• Reading
• Dayton Taylor Hector Macleod http//www.digitala
  ir.com/techniques/Digital_Air-Techniques.pdf
• Mark J. P. Wolf SPACE TIME FRAME CINEMA
  http//www.digitalair.com/techniques/STFC.pdf
• Levin, An Informal Catalogue of Slit-Scan Video
  Artworks, http//www.flong.com/writings/lists/list
  _slit_scan.html

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Spatiotemporal possibilities Video

• Steina Woody Vasulkas Warp http//www.vasulka.or
  g/Videomasters/pages_stills/index_99.html
• Zbig Rybczynski 4th Dimension http//www.zbigvisio
  n.com/
• RC Eames, Powers of 10 http//www.powersof10.com/
  
• Liisa Luonila, Play (http//www.scenemissing.net/w
  orks/ )
• David Rokeby's http//homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby
  /
• Scott Snibbe's Deep Walls, 2003
• http//www.snibbe.com/scott/index.html
• Allan Au Mirror Me - Live Cinema
  http//www.takeawayfestival.com/node/28
• Michel Gondry
• Like a Rolling Stone (Video for The Rolling
  Stones)
• Flash example, Eyes web, Soft

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Workshop

• Setting the limits for your work on the module.
• Conceptual
• What constitutes a narrative or story? Does it
  have to involve out of the ordinary events such
  as murder or robbery or can ordinary experience
  become part of a different sort of story? If a
  story has spatiality, temporality, causality,
  dramaturgy, and personification (see
  reference), what happens when we remove two of
  these aspects? Can a story still operate
  effectively?
• Introduction to mini assignment
• Discussion of lecture
• Technical
• File formats, resolutions and file sizes.

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Mini assignment

• What then is narrative?
• A narrative takes place somewhere, denotes a time
  frame, includes something like characters that
  act in some way, and these actions (or events)
  are organised in some motivated order and,
  finally, the combination connotes and promotes
  personification with the events and characters by
  a receptee.
• spatiality,
• temporality,
• causality,
• dramaturgy, and
• personification.
• Your work
• Read carefully Borghes, Luis The Book of Sand,
  identify 5 parameters of the story (ie
  spatiality, temporality, causality, dramaturgy,
  and personification and then experiment what
  happens if you remove two of them. Document your
  ideas (ie storyboard, text, visually, video)
• Digital Storytelling in a Shared, Distributed
  3D-Environment Björn Thuresson http//cid.nada.kth
  .se/pdf/cid_55.pdf

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Mini assignment

• What then is narrative?
• A narrative takes place somewhere,
• denotes a time frame,
• includes something like characters that act in
  some way,
• and these actions (or events) are organised in
  some motivated order and,
• finally, the combination connotes and promotes
  personification with the events and characters by
  a receptee.
• spatiality,
• temporality,
• causality,
• dramaturgy, and
• personification.