Den upplysta projektorn: Analog film i förändring
2014 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
As we speak, analogue film is being phased out of the international film industry. The medium that once reigned in capturing and projecting our world's light and the flow of time, has now been rendered obsolete and replaced by digital media technology. However, analogue film remains, and has come to be increasingly used and investigated in contemporary art. In my essay, I examine how our aesthetic perception of analogue film is changing with this shift to digital film technology. How do we experience analogue film – now that it is both on the verge of disappearing from society and is put in contrast to its digital successor? My investigation is based on the thesis that analogue film is now in a state of change. By analyzing three contemporary artists I attempt to discern how this change is aesthetically articulated, and trace alternative forms of continued existence for analogue film. The British artist Tacita Dean, the Italian artist Rosa Barba and the Swedish artist Alexander Gutke all work with film in their own way, and also in the context of the changed status of analogue film today. Furthermore, I examine the possibility that these artists form an active part of a continuous reshaping of analogue film, which is taking place in the fracture created in this shift to digital media technologies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2014. , p. 66
Keywords [sv]
estetik, analog, film, digitalisering, medieteknologier, skifte, brottyta, konst, filmkonst, materialitet, förnimmande, sinnlighet, omvandling, Tacita Dean, Rosa Barba, Alexander Gutke, Friedrich Kittler, Bernard Stiegler, Lev Manovich, Marshall McLuhan
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-35600OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-35600DiVA, id: diva2:1217468
Subject / course
Aesthetics
Uppsok
Humanities, Theology
Supervisors
Examiners
2018-06-132018-06-132018-06-13Bibliographically approved