Olin 149, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m. [Sponsored by the College Film Society & Media Studies]
Digital Cinema is not merely anything shot with a digital video camera, it's an emerging genre of its own.
This program of short works by 25 Scottish and international artists points to the digital desktop film-making of the future. Popular culture meets art, design and new technologies. A new desktop iconography emerges.
"The computer desktop culture is often over-hyped as the mantra for the new century. It informs our present lifestyle choices, the way we create and consume today. If a desktop is normally judged by its functionality, not its appearance, an icon of popular culture is traditionally perceived as more glamour than substance. In the age of narrative chaos, when traditional storytelling is being overthrown by the advent of new media, the Desktop Icons programme was conceived as an attempt to unwrap the new protagonists of popular culture--computer desktops and new screen icons."
Curated by Iliyana Nedkova for New Media Scottland.
Catalogue for Desktop Icons [Download .PDF]
"Desktop Icons" Trailer Download [10 MB file size]
New Media Scotland [>Desktop Icons]
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