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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2003
2:00-4:00PM |
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USC SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
WATT HALL #105
Manovich will be making a presentation of SOFT CINEMA, his ground-breaking
digital video project.
Using a large media database and custom software, Soft
Cinema edits movies in real time by choosing elements from the database using a
structured system of rules. The software decides what, where and in which sequence,
videa appears on the screen and what music track is played. Soft Cinema can be
thought of as a semi-automatic VJ (Video Jockey).
The lecture will also
address the merge between previously independent technologies and how the application
of that new collaborative technology allows increased user interaction and creativity,
making the human and non human interface much more independent.
SOFT CINEMA: FORM
Soft Cinema eplores 4 ideas:
1."Algorithmic Cinema." Using systems of rules, software controls both the layout
of the screen and the sequences of media elements.
2."Database Cinema." The media elements are selected from a large database to construct
a potentially unlimited number of different narrative films.
3."Macro-cinema." How moving images may look when the Net matures.
4."Multimedia Cinema." In Soft Cinema, video is used as only one type of representation
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