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- › Diskussion zum Vortrag (z.T. dt. Übers.) [RealMedia]
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- › Discussion after the lecture (partly in German) [RealMedia]
Abstract
From the mid 15th century writings of Leon Battista Alberti to the late 20th century computer software trademarked by Microsoft as "Windows", the window has a deep cultural history as an architectural and figurative trope for the framing and mediating of the pictorial image. While the window functioned as a metaphor for a fixed viewpoint through a single frame for Alberti, the "Windows" trope in computer software has become emblematic of the collapse of the single viewpoint, relying on the model of a window that we can't see through; multiple windows that overlap, obscure.
This paper will 1) debate with accounts of the ruptures (the argument of Jonathan Crary) and/or continuities (the argument of "apparatus" film theorists Jean Louis Baudry and Stephen Heath) between Renaissance perspective and the photographic and cinematic camera and 2) argue that while moving image technologies may have provided a challenge to Quattrocento perspective and its concomitant symbolic system by offering multiple perspectives sequentially, it has only been with the advent of digital imaging technologies and new technologies of display in the 1990s that the media "window" began to include multiple perspectives within a single frame.
Artists / Authors
- Anne Friedberg, Professorin für Filmwissenschaften, University of California, Irvine › Biography
Date(s)
- May 17, 2002
Organizer
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles und Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Submission
, May 22, 2003
Category
- Lecture
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