The Digital MediascapeWeek Two

Remediations and Retrovisions: The history of the digital

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Today’s lecture

• Remediation

• Immediacy

• Hypermediacy

• District 9

• Final example of both theories

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Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow, 1995

The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers 1999)

Jean AugusteDominique Ingres

Louis-François Bertin

1832

René Margritte

La condition humaine(The human condition)

1933

1981 2010 20??

paintingfixed perspective

photographyopera

cinema

home cinema

videogames

holodeck

Painting Fixed perspective Photography Opera Cinema Home cinema Blu-Ray Videogames The holodeck

Immediacy

‘at some point we will find ourselves looking through the medium

instead of at it’

janet murray, hamlet on the holodeck

creator

consumer

medium

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP (2011)

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immediacy + hypermediacy = remediation

District 9 Neill Blomkamp

2009