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Week 01 2018
Week 1: Cultural Data Sculpting
Lecturers
Sarah Kenderdine
Nikolaus Voelzow
Content
- 8am - 9am: Introduction to Cultural Data Sculpting
- 9am - 9.15am Introduction to eM+
- 9.15am -11am Ways of Seeing in CH visualization
- 11am - 11.15am: Course Structure
- 11.15am - 11.30am: Assignments & Assignment #1
- 11.30 - 11.45am: Readings (book of PDFs + eM+ Library)
- 12pm - 12.30pm: Introductions and aspirations
- 12.30pm - 1pm: Introduction to Unity Tutorials
Assignment #1
Research the history of media devices from the 19th Century or earlier. Select an example, describe it and find analogies with its modern-day equivalent.
1-page due Week 3, with in-class presentation (10%)
Readings (PDF or printed)
- Comment, B. (1999). Introduction & Chapter 1, 8 & 9 & 14, The Painted Panorama, Harry N. Abrams Inc.
- Goodwin, J. (2003). Chapters 10 & 11, Athnasius Kircher’s: Theatre of the World, Thames and Hudson
- Kenderdine, S. (2013). Place-Hampi: Inhabiting the panoramic imaginary of Vijayanagara, Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag. (Download text pages here – no photocopy)
- Kenderdine, S. 2007, ‘Speaking in Rama: Panoramic vision in cultural heritage visualisation’, in Cameron, F. & Kenderdine, S. (eds), Digital cultural heritage: A critical discourse, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 301–32.
- Robinson, D. 2003, Wener Nekes: Media Magica, in Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, MIT Press, pp.36.
- Shaw, J. and Weibel, P.& Van Tijen, T. (2003). Introductory essays, Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, MIT Press:
- Zielinski, S. (2015). ‘Allah’s Automata. Where Ancient Oriental Learning Intersects with Modern Europe: A Media-Archaeological Miniature by Way of Introduction’, in Weibel, P. & Zeilinski (eds), Allah’s Automata: artifacts of the Arab-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200), ZKM.
eM+ Library books
- Comment, B. (1999). The Painted Panorama, Harry N. Abrams Inc.
- Goodwin, J. (2003). Athnasius Kircher’s: Theatre of the World, Thames and Hudson
- Huhtamo, E. (), Illusion in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panoramas and Related Spectacles, MIT Press: Leonardo.
- Kenderdine, S. (2013). Place-Hampi: Inhabiting the panoramic imaginary of Vijayanagara, Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag.
- Oleksijczuk, D. B., (2011), The First Panoramas: Vision of British Imperialism, University of Minnesota Press.
- Shaw, J. and Weibel, P. Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, MIT Press.
- Zielinski, S. & Weibel, P. (2015), eds, Allah’s Automata: artifacts of the Arab-Islamic Renaissance (800-1200), ZKM
Websites
- http://www.visual-media.eu/
