Of Trees and Clouds

Software-Mediated Visions in Documentary and Ethnographic Filmmaking Practices
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-8471-1130-6
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weidle, Franziska

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Über Autor(innen)

Weidle, Franziska
Dr Franziska Weidle holds a PhD in visual anthropology. Her academic and creative work focuses on digital knowledge practices including documentary, serious games and instructional design.