Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky’s “Soft Cinema”: “The Language of New Media” in Practice
Abstract
Zawojski attempts to show in his article how theoretical activity and artistic practice merge in the work of Lev Manovich. Manovich, who is primarily known as an author of The Language of New Media, has for years made use of new media to create his art projects. The best known of them is Soft Cinema (made in collaboration with, i.a. Andreas Kratky) which can be treated as drawing on some trends in avant-garde and experimental cinema but also as a form of the application of the theoretical concepts originating in The Language of New Media. Relying on the four basic ideas - algorithmic editing, database narrative, macro-cinema and multimedia cinema - Soft Cinema can be an example of the modern version of the expanded cinema Gene Youngblood had once written about.
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Piotr Zawojskikwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Silesia Poland
Adiunkt w Zakładzie Filmoznawstwa i Wiedzy o Mediach UŚ, wykładowca na WRiTV UŚ, krytyk filmowy i eseista; kieruje działem Filmu i Mediów w kwartalniku Opcje. Autor książki Elektroniczne obrazoświaty. Między sztuką a technologią (2000). Wkrótce ukaże się jego książka Wielkie filmy przełomu wieków. Subiektywny przewodnik.
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