Re: [microsound] call for content | Digital Salvage v.1

[Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Flash would be viewed much differently if it was made to be
presented like film. I was thinking specifically about potential, not what's
currently been realized, which like television  and film is mostly
advertising. Embracing the smallness, for instance making 'toys', might be
another strategy?


-km

> personally, i don't even think that movies should be shown on television sets
> as they are not designed for such usage. i really think you have to be in a
> big dark room to see a movie the right way. at the very least you need the
> "widescreen" addition...
> 
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> Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Flash has the potential to be
> as expressive as cinema (or at least
> contemporary ideas of what defines cinema, according to Lev Manovich's
> 'Language of New Media' animation is just a subset of cinema as moving
> image) but the environment in which most Flash based net art is viewed does
> not confer the same reverence as a large projection in a theater.
> 
> -km
> 
> 
>> There may be confusion as to what is meant by "new". Are we talking
>> about a new idea or a new look? If your medium is flexible enough, you
>> will always be able to bring about new ideas. I can't imagine how
>> painting could reach a point where no more new ideas could be expressed
>> through it. It may be, however, that something like Flash is not
>> flexible enough to be expressive outside of a small realm.
>> I don't know, I haven't used it.
>> 
>> -- jeremy avnet / brainsik .:. Public Key at http://brainsik.to/pubkey.asc
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