Digital 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?

Contemporary Artists working with alternative film processes

Syreeta Mcfadden

Adam Broomberg + Oliver Chanarin

Richard Mosse

From recent documentary films Incoming + Enclave