Between Stillness and Motion : Film, Photography, Algorithms

Between Stillness and Motion : Film, Photography, Algorithms

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IN TRANSITION

Between Stillness

and Motion

FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, ALGORITHMS

EDITED BY

EIVIND RØSSAAK

Amsterdam University Press BetweenStillnessandMotion Between Stillness and Motion

Film, Photography, Algorithms

Edited by Eivind Røssaak The publication of this book is made possible by a grant from the Norwegian

ResearchCouncil.

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thecopyrightownerandtheauthorofthebook. Contents

Acknowledgements uf737

Introduction

TheStill/MovingField:An Introduction uf731uf731

EivindRøssaak

Philosophies of Motion

The Play between Still and Moving Images:Nineteenth-Century

“PhilosophicalToys” andTheir Discourse uf732uf737

TomGunning

Digital TechnicsBeyond the“LastMachine”:Thinking Digital

MediawithHollisFrampton uf734uf735

MarkB.N.Hansen

The Use of Freeze and Slide Motion

TheFigure ofVisualStandstillinR.W.Fassbinder’sFilms uf737uf735

ChristaBlümlinger

TheTemporalitiesoftheNarrative SlideMotionFilm uf738uf735

LivHausken

The Cinematic Turn in the Arts

Stop/Motion uf731uf730uf739

ThomasElsaesser

After “Photography’s Expanded Field” uf731uf732uf733

GeorgeBaker

OnOuf76eOuf774uf774uf76f:MovingImagesand theNewCollectivity uf731uf733uf737

InaBlom 6 BetweenStillnessandMotion

The Algorithmic Turn

Mutable Temporality In and Beyondthe MusicVideo:

AnAesthetic ofPost-Production uf731uf735uf739

ArildFetveit

Algorithmic Culture: Beyondthe Photo/FilmDivide uf731uf738uf737

EivindRøssaak

Archives in Between

“The Archives ofthePlanet” andMontage:The Movementof

the Crowd and“theRhythmofLife” uf732uf730uf737

TrondLundemo

GeneralBibliography uf732uf732uf735

Contributors uf732uf733uf735 Acknowledgements

This book would not have been possible without the help of many generous

colleaguesand supportiveinstitutions.Mysincere thanksgotomyformercol-

legues in the cross-disciplinary research project Media Aesthetics at the Univer-

sity of Oslo and the University of Copenhagen: Liv Hausken, Ina Blom, Arild

Fetveit,andSusanneØstbySæther.Theideaforthisbookwasbornanddevel-

oped during this project. This research project was financed by the Norwegian

Research Council and generously hosted by the Department of Media and

Communication at the University of Oslo. Thanks also to the National Library

of Norway for support in the book’s final stages. Most importantly, thanks to

thecontributorsfortakingpartinthejointbookseminaratLysebuConference

CenteroverlookingthewoodsofOsloinuf732uf730uf730uf738,where theseideaswereconsoli-

dated and developed during lectures, presentations, conversations and idle

talksintothenight.ThankyoualsototheSocietyofCinemaandMediaStudies

forhostingseveralofthepapersattheirconferencesoverthepastdecade.Talks

andconversationswithcolleaguesandstudentsattheseconferencesandatour

respective universities and institutions also helped foster these ideas. Thanks

alsotoChristianRefsum,NevenaIvanova,JihoonFelixKim,JonIngeFaldalen,

D.N.Rodowick,W.J.T.Mitchell,MaryAnnDoaneandAlexanderGallowayfor

inspirationandidletalks,andfinally,toThomasElsaesserformakingthispub-

lishingprojectpossible.Thanksalsotoourtirelesscopyeditor,wordsmithKier-

stenLeighJohnson.

EivindRøssaak

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