Hey Jesse, Not exactly related, but I'd highly recommend Barnouw's Magician and the Cinema <https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/erik-barnouw-6/the-magician-and-the-cinema-2/>, which expounds on Arthur C. Clarke's later statement that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
affectionately, Marc On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Jesse Malmed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for texts and works that draw connections (and erase them too, > sure) between early cinema and the beginnings of video. And, for that > matter, with other nascent technologies and their shared tendencies. Camera > tricks, formal inventiveness, actualities, etc. > > Also, while I've got you — I was thinking about the (perhaps apocryphal, > cunningly Gunningly so) stories of genuine fears about the Lumière train's > first projection and the stories of the outraged audience at an early > showing of L'Age D'Or throwing ink at the screen in protest. Ink on the > screen is a pretty amazing gesture (it is about to not go without saying > that I am obviously staunchly in the camp of artists over reactionary > right-wingers) even/especially with its scale of potency to poetry. Are > there other related stories you'd like to share? Torn down screens? Shadow > puppets between the projector and the screen? Well-deployed spoilers? > > *JM* > > -- > *// // // J E S S E M A L M E D * > 505.690.7899 // [email protected] // live to tape > <http://livetotapefestival.tumblr.com/> > jessemalmed.net <http://www.jessemalmed.net> // deep leap > <http://www.deepleap.net> // nightingale <http://nightingalecinema.org/> > // trunk show <http://trunk--show.com> // > projective verse <http://urbanhonking.com/projectiveverse/> // bad at > sports <http://badatsports.com/tags/jesse-malmed/> // acre_tv > <http://acretv.org/> // western pole <http://westernpole.tumblr.com> > > * > <http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trunk-show-jesse-malmed-raven-falquez-munsell-bumper-stickers-eric-fleischauer/Content?oid=15719804>Trunk > Show in Newcity > <http://art.newcity.com/2015/05/30/portrait-of-a-gallery-trunk-show/>** / > **JM on WDCB > <https://soundcloud.com/wdcbnews/the-arts-section-chicago-fest>** /** > Live to Tape in the Reader > <http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/05/14/live-to-tape-fest-is-like-if-weird-al-yankovics-uhf-were-a-gallery-installation> > / **Trunk Show in the Chicago Reader > <http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trunk-show-jesse-malmed-raven-falquez-munsell-bumper-stickers-eric-fleischauer/Content?oid=15719804> > / JM in the Reader > <http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2015/01/20/the-next-month-is-the-time-to-catch-the-thriving-local-experimental-video-art-scene> > / > Gapers Block > <http://gapersblock.com/ac/2015/01/25/jesse-malmed-the-film-studies-center/> > / South Side Weekly > <http://southsideweekly.com/yes-to-humor-no-to-laughs/> / Chicago Tribune > Best of 2015 > <http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-best-art-2015-ent-1213-20151209-story.html>* > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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