VISITING ARTIST INITIATIVE EVENT: Cultural
Narrative Structure in Multi-Linear Cinema
Jean-Louise Boissier (Professor, Universite de Paris
VIII, Paris)
Tuesday, March 8 / 4:30 PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
Workshop March 7-9 / 10:00 AM-4:00 PM / E-Studio, Dept
of Art
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In this talk, Prof. Jean-Louis Boissier discusses narrative
and aesthetic processes in interactive video. He reevaluates
the chronophotographic processes as exemplified in the
works of Edward Muybridge and Etienne Jules-Marey to
focus on the staging of events and their relation to
the image and interactivity. Theoretical questions will
address how the interactive gesture can be expressed
through the interactive video image, and how this process
functions not only in transforming the visual appearance
but also the relations between images, interactivity
and their meaning. Professor Boissier will also be giving
a three day workshop in interactive cinematic narrative
from March 7-9, 10:00am-4:00pm in the UCSB e-studio.
The workshop will introduce a number or methods and
techniques in the conceptualization and production of
the interactive process. The workshop will include learning
about basic video-editing, Quicktime, Photoshop, Soundedit,
and Macromedia Director.
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanites Center,
Media Arts & Technology Graduate Program, the Departments
of French & Italian and Germanic, Slavic & Semitic
Studies.
