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Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script To Reflexivey Extend Engagement By Way If Technologies, Alexandra Juhasz
Ev-Ent-Anglement: A Script To Reflexivey Extend Engagement By Way If Technologies, Alexandra Juhasz
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We discuss an art project that links entaglements and events and thinks about cutting pasting and bleeding.
Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios, Kevin L. Ferguson
Digital Surrealism: Visualizing Walt Disney Animation Studios, Kevin L. Ferguson
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There are a number of fruitful digital humanities approaches to cinema and media studies, but most of them only pursue traditional forms of scholarship by extracting a single variable from the audiovisual text that is already legible to scholars. As an alternative, cinema and media studies should pursue a mostly-ignored "digital surrealism" that uses computer-based methods to transform film texts in radical ways not previously possible. This article describes one such method using the z-projection function of the scientific image analysis software ImageJ to sum film frames in order to create new composite images. Working with the fifty-five feature-length films …