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Film: examining the past to predict the future

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The Future of Film

This blog post is the result of collaboration between Barbara Vance, Mona Kasra, Luis Fernando Midence, Tameka Reeves, and Amy Pickup with special help from Rachael SullivanWhat is the future of film? The question itself belies a dated approach to a medium that is rapidly becoming antiquated and which could, in very short order, find itself totally obsolete. For the purposes of this discussion, we will refer to our proposed entertainment medium as “cinema”, acknowledging that it too, is hardly…See More
A blog post by Amy Pickup was featured May 7, 2010
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The History of Film

Here is the ScreenHereAfter presentation regarding the investigative history of film.http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Aaev9SXQseDUZGZ0aHEzcTVfMzlmaDQ0NXpkNQ&hl=enSee More
Blog post by Tameka Reeves May 7, 2010
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ants and bumble bees and stuff

Wright delves into the scientific reasoning of how we create, organize,manipulate, process, store and maintain information. He highlightsspecific examples within nature that have influenced greatly the waymany assets of our social and technological structures are built,paradigms which will continue to influence the way we will control notjust data, meta-data in the future. As storage on books once helpedrelieve people from remembering things, computers will do the same - ona whole other…See More
Blog post by Amy Pickup Apr 21, 2010

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ScreenHereAfter is a research group dedicated to studying the history of the moving picture. From the vast panoramas of the 19th century that refocused the concept of an image as illusion, not just representation; to film flapping across its reel; to the digital age we find ourselves now -- society is bound up in an ever-changing cultural and technological machine that affects not only how we interact in the world, but how we perceive it. It is our purpose to examine the moving image’s past so that we might predict its future.


Our cadre includes writers, artists, filmmakers, actors, and emergent-media scholars at the University of Texas at Dallas. We welcome any and all commentary from visitors who have their own insights to add -- hope you join the conversation.

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Luis F. Midence: @guatguy
Mona Kasra: @monaism
Amy Pickup: @AmyPickup
Tameka Reeves: @TamekaReeves
Rachael Sullivan: @rachaelsullivan
Barbara Vance: @brvance

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Tameka Reeves

The History of Film

Here is the ScreenHereAfter presentation regarding the investigative history of film.

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Aaev9SXQseDUZGZ0aHEzcTVfMzlmaDQ0NXpkNQ&hl=en

Posted by Tameka Reeves on May 6, 2010 at 11:27pm

Amy Pickup

The Future of Film

This blog post is the result of collaboration between Barbara Vance, Mona Kasra, Luis Fernando Midence, Tameka Reeves, and Amy Pickup with special help from Rachael Sullivan



What is the future of film? The question itself belies a dated approach to a medium that is rapidly becoming antiquated and which could, in very short order, find itself totally obsolete. For the purposes of this discussion, we will refer to our proposed entertainment medium… Continue

Posted by Amy Pickup on May 6, 2010 at 9:30pm

Rachael Sullivan

remix, ownership, and the author function

In Lessig's book, there is an interesting tension between the “thee-regarding” motivations for content creation and the principle of ownership. Lessig makes a nuanced point that offering up your computer for the SETI@home project, contributing content to Creative Commons, or donating time to Wikipedia clean-up are not necessarily gestures of self-sacrifice. He asks, “Why do people do these things for free rather than, say, watching television?” (175). In comparing television with other forms of… Continue

Posted by Rachael Sullivan on February 24, 2010 at 11:00am

Amy Pickup

I pirated Girl Talk WAYYY before I read this book, watched this movie or even had this class.

At first, Lawrence Lessig's intentions seemed to go against what I expected. Like Rip, Lessig used Girl Talk as one of his key arguments of what the music industry and ultimately our own culture seems to be shifting to. He argues that music needs to be shared to grow, to compete and truly improve. He pushes for the acceptance of digitality and that this change will not completely destroy the concept of the original creative act.



Lessig juxtaposes our current day copyright dilemma with… Continue

Posted by Amy Pickup on February 24, 2010 at 1:00am

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