Soft Cinema (2002) was commissioned and produced by ZKM (Center for Art
and Media, Karlsruhe).
Lev Manovich - with Andreas Kratky, DJ Spooky, Christine Bokelmann, Anne
Pascual and Marcus Hauer / Schoenerwissen, Olia Lialina, Ruth Lorenz /
maaskant, Jason Danziger / think/build group, Andreas Angelidakis,
Gloria
Sutton, Rachel Stevens, Francesca Ferguson, Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Ted
Apel.
Soft Cinema (installation version) will be shown at ZKM as a part of
Future Cinema exhibition. Soft Cinema (screen version) will be shown in
other exhibitions along with the earlier projects Little Movies
(1994-1997) and Anna and Andy (2000). Conceived for the Web in 1994,
Little Movies is a eulogy to the earliest form of digital cinema
QuickTime. Anna and Andy is a streaming novel which uses Tolstoy's
Anna
Karenina as a script that drives a computer-generated re-creation of
Warhol's Screen Tests.
Soft Cinema Book (limited edition) will be available at ICA and ZKM
bookstores.
November 2002 Exhibition Schedule:
Future Cinema | ZKM (Center for Art and Media), Karlsruhe, Germany
15 November 2002 to 23 March 2003 | opening: November 15, 7pm
Soft Cinema (installation version)
Lev Manovich: Adventures In Digital Cinema | ICA London
Exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
November 7- 30, 2002
Soft cinema + Anna and Andy + Little Movies
e-magic v.0.1 | Thessaloniki, Greece
November 12-14, 2002
Soft Cinema + Anna and Andy + Little Movies
Video Biennial | The Digitalartlab, Holon, Israel
November 20-26, 2002
Soft cinema + Anna and Andy
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Coming up:
Soft Cinema at Transmediale 03 exhibition, Berlin
February 2003
SOFT CINEMA
How to represent the subjective experience of living in a global
information society? If daily interaction with volumes of data and
numerous messages is part of our new data-subjectivity, how can we
visualize this subjectivity in new ways using new media?
Soft(ware) Cinema investigates a few approaches toward answering these
questions. Fictional stories excerpted from a collection entitled GUI
(Global User Interface) are presented as a series of short movies.
While
the voice over which narrates the stories was edited before hand,
everything else is constructed by the software in real time, including
what appears on the screen, where, and in which sequence. The decisions
are based partly on a system of rules, and are partly random. In other
words, Soft Cinema can be thought of as a semi-automatic VJ (Video
Jockey)
or more precisely, a FJ (Film Jockey).
The source material for the visual track comes from a large database.
Each
video clip in the database follows Dogma 95 rules: it was shot in
continuous takes without edits using a hand-held camera. Most of the
clips
have been recorded by the author while in Berlin, Tokyo, Riga, and other
locations between 1999 and 2002; a few clips are simulated (i.e. a still
image was animated to look like a video shot on location).
http://www.manovich.net/soft
cinema/
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