Passages of Light: Analogue and Digital Moving Image Installation.

Alexander Nevill

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Within a rapidly changing media landscape, light remains an intrinsic and potentially expressive aspect of moving imagery, regardless of the shape, form and resolution that specific capture and display devices might take. The practice of light in moving imagery is typically considered through an arrangement of sources, filters and modifiers that sculpt the aesthetic appearance of a two-dimensional frame and is often studied in relation to mainstream Hollywood films. This practice-research investigation seeks to compliment such discourse by extending the consideration of lighting practices beyond conventional cinematography to an installation context. Through the presentation of several artworks, this exposition reveals a distinction between the light ‘of’ an image and the light ‘within’ an image. It also explores the material considerations of a practitioner’s control of projected light. Each artwork seeks to create an interoperation between analogue and digital moving imagery, weaving together various technologies in order to reveal an array of textures and qualities of light. Drawing primarily on autoethnographic notation captured during the creation of these artworks, as well as discussion of a range of film and video texts, this exposition investigates material tensions of mediated illumination.

type	research exposition
keywords	moving image, media arts, cinematography, Analog vs digital tools, installation, Video art, video installation, expanded cinema, media archeology
date	28/06/2019
published	28/06/2019
last modified	28/06/2019
status	published
affiliation	School of Cinema, San Francisco State University
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url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/458012/458013
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.458012
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	18. 18

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name	Guy Sherwin3
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name	Anthony McCall1
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name	#Life_Drawing (Film_Video Installation, 2017)
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name	Piccadilly Circus4
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name	Piccadilly Circus (Film_Video Installation, 2016)
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name	Camera:Projector1
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name	Camera:Projector2
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name	Camera_Projector (Film_Video Installation, 2014)
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name	Screen Shot 2019-06-19 at 15.02.36
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name	Camera:Projector5
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name	Picadilly Circus5
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name	Piccadilly Circus7
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name	#Life_Drawing4
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name	#Life_Drawing6
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name	Camera/Projector10
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name	Screen Shot 2019-06-19 at 15.02.36
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