Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Biggs
Hi Sean I am aware of the examples you give ­ but that was not the sort of thing I meant when suggesting some form of data analysis of a text. I was thinking more about how you could mash-up discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and reader reception theory, on the one hand, and empirical

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread Timothy Murray
Hi, Tom, Your suggest that animation has migrated from image development to movement is fascinating.I'm wondering how you would distinguish animation from cinema or even video in this regard. Is there a fundamental difference if we think of movement as the 'thing'? And could you say more

[-empyre-] design vs. animation

2010-02-04 Thread Renate Ferro
Dear empyre, Our discussion this month is on animation and from my perspective animation is a very broad and all encompassing medium and includes not only high corporate production (disney, pixar) but also independent artistic production. That said what fascinates me is that there seem to be

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread Thomas LaMarre, Prof.
Tim, The differences between cinema and animation are really interesting, and historically they develop out of different sets of techniques that today are coming together in novel ways. I am thinking primarily of cel animation here but the techniques do apply to animation more broadly. With

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread davin heckman
Having seen Lev Manovich's presentation at DAC, I am dazzled by the strong potential of cultural analytics. I have been doing the pauper's version of this for years, telling some of my more dedicated visual culture students: head to the library, grab a stack of bound periodicals (or one of the

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread davin heckman
I just had a chance to look at Patrick Crogan's excellent article THE NINTENDO Wii, VIRTUALISATION AND GESTURAL ANALOGICS: http://culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/374/397 ___ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread Gregory Ulmer
Simon Biggs wrote: Hi Sean I am aware of the examples you give – but that was not the sort of thing I meant when suggesting some form of data analysis of a text. I was thinking more about how you could mash-up discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and reader reception theory, on the one

Re: [-empyre-] visualization as the new language of theory

2010-02-04 Thread Renate Ferro
Davin, Paul Ward will be our guest on empyre in a couple of weeks. Thanks so much for citing his work. Renate This is a great discussion. And there are lots of interesting twists and turns, so forgive me for ignoring a whole bunch of other things to that I can focus on one: Simon Biggs