ART 80F - WEEK 1 LECTURE CONTENT
Media Communication Technologies + Mediation Layers
Mediation Layers - technologies, formats and/or systems that affect final output
Can influence input (content) + output (meaning)
Technicolor in film influenced:
Art direction + cinematic style
Some cinematography
Narratives / Content - what / who was filmed, who wasn’t, what was part of a story
Embedded Biases in analog Media Systems
Case study: kodak film
Color film by Kodak in the 1950s and 1960s was originally created to optimize lighter complexions over darker complexions. This pattern evolved into television systems and, eventually, aspects of digital film + photography.
Consider the Illusion of the “truth” or “objectivity” of a photograph - What are some of the invisible architectures present in analog photography that could influence the input + the output?
Video Via VOX
Contemporary Artists working with alternative film processes
Syreeta Mcfadden
Syreeta McFadden, from Teaching the Camera to See My Skin
Adam Broomberg + Oliver Chanarin
Richard Mosse
From recent documentary films Incoming + Enclave