Within this website is a response to Manovich's (2001) comments concerning cinema, multi-tasking and aesthetic density, (extract 3 [three])
“This new cinematic aesthetics of density seems to be highly appropriate for our age. If we are surrounded by highly dense information surfaces, from city streets to Web pages, it is appropriate to expect from cinema a similar logic. In similar fashion, we may thinkof spatial montage as reflecting another contemporary daily experience - working with a number of different applications on a computer at once. If we are now used to switching our attention rapidly from one program to another, from one set of windows and commands to another, we may find multiple streams of audio-visual information presented simultaneously, more satisfying than the single stream of traditional cinema.” (p328)
In the operation of any multi-tasking process we look at a range of aspects simultaneously, allowing our attention to shift seamlessly between programs. However, each of these programs constitutes only a facet of the entire operational process; the user's experience exists as the cumulative sum of these processes. This is the main concern of this web essay – aspects of life concerned with the construction of a subjective reality by viewing people, objects and events from different angles based on the fragments of information provided.
On either side of this text there are two boxes, each containing mediations on a particular aspect of a multi-tasked or montage-like reality. The topics therein are social representation, the effect of multiple online news sources, videos in a new media environment and the effect of online influence in the cinema.
Manovich. Lev(2001) Cinematic and Graphic: Cinegratography
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