Of Trees and Clouds
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Of Trees and Clouds

Software-Mediated Visions in Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking Practices

  1. 219 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Of Trees and Clouds

Software-Mediated Visions in Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking Practices

About this book

Software-based technologies deeply saturate our everyday lives. Consequently, they also influence the ways we see and mediate the world. In fact, the ease and flexibility software provides implies a shift in control. Digital media mediates itself, turning software into a co-author. Yet, the potentials of such a co-authorship are still largely constrained by conventions stemming from the need to run strips of celluloid through a projector. This book demonstrates how software can retrain filmmakers' visions of the world – from branching trees to the shifting contours of clouds. It does so by ethnographically studying one particular technology, the Korsakow System. The result is a methodology for interrogating established software regimes; a task increasingly in need of anthropological attention.

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Information

Publisher
V&R Unipress
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783847111306
eBook ISBN
9783847011309
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. List of Figures and Videos
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Prolog: Attuning to Trees and Clouds
  8. Part I: Introduction
  9. 1 A New Playground Stuck in Old Paradigms: Reconsidering the Rules of Representation
  10. 2 In Search of the Digital: Towards a Framework for Studying Software
  11. Part II: The Korsakow System
  12. 3 Korsakow Perspective‍(s) – Rethinking Documentary Knowledge in Digital Multilinear Environments
  13. 4 Software as Co-Teacher – How Korsakow Disrupted an Ethnographic Film Program
  14. 5 Gaining Control over the Loss of It – Software as Focusing Media in Digital Visual Ethnography
  15. Part III: Conclusion
  16. 6 Software-Mediated Visions: Between Mapping Trees and Sketching Clouds
  17. Epilog: A Computational Correspondence with the World
  18. References
  19. Index