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TBC week 12

• Screen and discuss remaining examples of text/image relationships

• The machine is us/ing us [[1]]

We’ll need to rethink a few things: Copyright, authorship, identity, Ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves

Text is linear (handwritten)

Digital text is different

It can link

Html – formatting – with each new kind of formatting, you have to do less to achieve more

Form and content became inseparable in html

XML separates form and content – so non expert users can upload content

Who will organize this data

We are the web

We teach the machine

• What are the formal elements of the work?

writing on skin:

• aidswalk: [[2]]

• body painting: [[3]]

Pillowbook excerpt

• 9:35 – 17:53

Storytelling in segments:

• Scott McCloud [[4]]

Using handwritten text:

• Sadie Benning [[5]]

Alternative narrative: Quark Star

• Text – using it in its natural habitat

• Resolution – does it matter? What does it say?

• How stories are constructed – by the viewer

In class exercise

Find an image

Choose a word or phrase

Create a text animation that works – corresponds to the character of both text and image

Style

40's music [[6]]

German Expressionism [[7]] [[8]] [[9]]

Nosferatu VIDEO. 791.43 N897DVD255

Metropolis [[10]] VIDEO. 791.43 M594DVD576

Edward Scissorhands VIDEO. 791.437 E25 DVD2659

Sin City (trailer) [[11]]

The brothers Quay – dream sequence from Frida [[12]]

• What do they have in common thematically?

• How are they similar visually?

• How does form relate to content?