Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)

Throughout The History Of Cinema, A Radical Avant-garde Has Existed On The Fringes Of The Film Industry. A Great Deal Of Research Has Focused On The Pre- And Early History Of Cinema, But There Has Been Little Speculation About A Future Cinema Incorporating New Electronic Media. Electronic Media Have Not Only Fundamentally Transformed Cinema But Have Altered Its Role As A Witness To Reality By Rendering Realities Not Necessarily Linked To Documentation, By Engineering Environments That Incorporate Audiences As Participants, And By Creating Event-worlds That Mix Realities And Narratives In Forms Not Possible In Traditional Cinema. This Hybrid Cinema Melds Montage, Traditional Cinema, Experimental Literature, Television, Video, And The Net. The New Cinematic Forms Suggest That Traditional Cinema No Longer Has The Capacity To Represent Events That Are Themselves Complex Configurations Of Experience, Interpretation, And Interaction. This Book, Which Accompanies An Exhibition Organized By The Zkm Institute For Visual Media, Explores The History And Significance Of Pre-cinema And Of Early Experimental Cinema, As Well As The Development Of The Unique Theaters In Which Immersion Evolved. Drawing On A Broad Range Of Scholarship, It Examines The Shift From Monolithic Hollywood Spectacles To Works Probing The Possibilities Of Interactive, Performative, And Net-based Cinemas. The Post-cinematic Condition, The Book Shows, Has Long Roots In Artistic Practice And Influences Every Channel Of Communication.--book Jacket. Prolegomena To All Future Cinema / Guy Debord -- Preface / Peter Weibel -- A Panorama Of Pre-cinematic Principles / Tjebbe Van Tijen -- Introduction / Jeffrey Shaw -- The Cinematic Imaginary. Werner Nekes / David Robinson ; The Urge To Create Visions / Stefan Themerson ; The Camera Eye: Dialectics Of A Metaphor / William C. Wees ; Battle Of The Images / Raymond Bellour ; Fugitive Realities, Situated Realities, Situational Realities, Or Future Cinema(s) Past / Timothy Druckrey ; Nostalgia For The Digital Object: Regrets On The Quickening Of Quicktime / Vivian Sobchack ; Luis Buñuel ; Perry Hoberman / Erkki Huhtamo -- Screenings. Will Cinemascope Save The Film Industry? / André Bazin ; Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking Cinemascope And Stereophonic Sound / Richard Hamilton ; Prague, A Place Of Illusionists / Michael Bielicky ; Laterna Magika, Polyekran, Kinoautomat / Vít Havránek ; Josef Svoboda ; Expanded Cinema, Video And Virtual Environments / Peter Weibel -- Theaters. Fairground To Dream Palace: Buildings For Film / Edwin Heathcote ; Frederick Keisler / Valentina Sonzogni ; The Cathedral Of Fictions / Scott Mcquire ; Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-drome: Networking The Subject / Gloria Sutton ; The Pepsi Pavillion: Laboratory For Social Experimentation / Randall Packer ; Dan Graham / Ulrike Havemann -- Codes. Cinema And The Code / Gene Youngblood ; Steina And Woody Vasulka / Robert A. Haller ; Public Image / Michele Pierson ; Painting, The Power Of Illusion And The Moving Pictures / Dörte Zbikowski ; Peter Weibel / Dominika Szope ; Michael Snow / Anne-marie Duguet, Jean Gagnon ; Zbigniew Rybczynski / Paul Virilio, Siegfried Zielinski ; Werner Nekes / Siegfried Zielinski ; William Kentridge / Katrin Kaschadt And Petra Meyer ; Jon Jost ; Resfest, 2002 / Holly Willis ; Gilles Deleuze And A Future Cinema: Cinema 1, Cinema 2, And Cinema 3? / Barbara Filser. Remapping. Lynn Hershman Leeson ; Perry Hoberman / Timothy Druckrey ; Toni Dove / Sabine Himmelsbach ; Martin Arnold ; Pierre Huyghe ; Constanze Ruhm ; Rosa Barba / Nils Röller ; Caspar Stracke ; Jennifer And Kevin Mccoy / Timothy Druckrey ; Jim Campbell / Sabine Himmelsbach -- Transcriptive. Grahame Weinbren ; Interactive Cinema Group, Mit Media Lab / Glorianna Davenport ; Jill Scott ; Eija-liisa Ahtila / Dörte Zbikowski ; Isaac Julien / David Frankel ; Jordan Crandall ; Chris Hales ; Susan Norrie / Dominika Szope ; Gary Hill / Sabine Himmelsbach ; Interactive Narrative As A Multi-temporal Agency / Neil Brown [and Others] ; Timely Art: Hybridity In New Cinema And Electronic Poetry / N. Katherine Hayles -- Recombinatory. George Legrady With Rosemary Comella ; Chris Marker / Christine Van Assche, Barbara Filser ; Bill Seaman / Dieter Daniels ; Agnes Hegedüs / Ursula Frohne ; Ian Howard ; The Future Of The Cinematic City / Norman M. Klein ; Designing A Database Cinema / Marsha Kinder ; Norman M. Klein, With Rosemary Comella, Andreas Kratky, And The Labyrith Project ; Pat O'neill, With Rosemary Comella, Kristy H.a. Kang, And The Labyrinth Project / Marsha Kinder ; Péter Forgács And The Labyrinth Project / Marsha Kinder And Zaia Alexander ; Lev Manovich / Andreas Kratky ; Peter Cornwell -- Navigable. Technologies Of Seeing / Brian Winston ; Jeffrey Shaw / Anne-marie Duguet ; Jean Michel Bruyère/lfk-lafabriks ; The Relation-image / Jean-louis Boissier ; Jean-louis Boissier ; Christian Ziegler / Dörte Zbikowski ; Masaki Fujihata -- Interpolated. Space-time Correlations Focused In Film Objects And Interactive Video / Susanne Jaschko ; Joachim Sauter And Dirk Lüsebrink ; Daniel Egg / Peter Weibel ; Martin Reinhart And Virgil Widrich ; Margie Medlin ; Julien Maire / Timothy Druckrey ; Zoe Beloff ; Tony Oursler / Dörte Zbikowski ; Janet Cardiff / Leejone Wong ; Max Dean ; Max Dean And Kristan Horton ; Synthetic Characters Group, Mit Media Lab. Immersive. Artificial Nature And Natural Artifice / Philippe Codognet ; Media Art In The Third Dimension: Stereoscopic Imaging And Contemporary Art / Erkki Huhtamo ; Michael Naimark / Roger Malina ; Judith Berry ; Agnes Hegedüs, Bernd Lintermann, Jeffrey Shaw / Kristine Stiles ; Blast Theory ; Time's Up ; Luc Courchesne / Emma Crimmings ; Dennis Del Favero ; Marnix De Nijs -- Calculated. Karl Sims ; Artificial Plants / Oliver Deussen And Bernd Lintermann ; Shelley Eshkar And Paul Kaiser ; Marc Lafia With Didi Fire ; Maciej Wisniewski ; The Interactive Potential Of Distributed Networks: Immersion And Participation In Films And Computer Games / Sabine Himmelsbach ; Paul Johnson / Tony Conrad ; The Art Of Machinima / Katie Salen -- Networked. Telling Stories On Screens: A History Of Web Cinema / Nora Berry ; Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries ; Mark Napier / Steve Sacks ; Jan Speckenbach And Birk Weiberg ; Thomas Fürstner / Margit Rosen ; Axel Heide, Onesandzeros, Philip Pocock, Gregor Stehle -- Screenless. Backwards To The Future: Outline For An Investigation Of The Cinema As A Time Machine / Siegfried Zielinski ; The Time Will Come When ... / Ross Gibson ; Maurice Benayoun / Philippe Codognet ; Michael Schmid, Jörn Müller-quade, Thomas Beth / Ulrike Havemann ; Plug-in Without Drop-out (media Art In The Age Of Cerebral Stimulation) / Caspar Stracke ; Darij Kreuh And Davide Grassi ; Bios Team: Jaanis Garancs, Sven Hahne, Norman Muller, Thomas Tirel ; The Intelligent Image: Neurocinema Or Quantum Cinema? / Peter Weibel -- Letter To Serge Daney: Optimism, Pessimism, And Travel / Gilles Deleuze. Edited By Jeffrey Shaw And Peter Weibel. Catalog Of An Exhbition Held At The Zkm/center For Art And Media Karlsruhe, Nov. 16, 2002-mar. 30, 2003. Includes Bibliographical References.