Are these media new?
Under the editorship of Eric Alloi and Isabelle Raynauld
The 6th issue of Post-Scriptum.org is concerned with the concepts and
expressions that constitute the foundation of new media as a field of study.
If the current lexical profusion (new media, multimedia, digital media,
interactive media, etc) attests to the diversity of possible approaches when
faced with combinations of information technology and arts such as
literature, cinema and other hybrid forms, what critical point of view are
we able to bring to an artistic practice that is still embryonic.
We would like to question the notion of newness associated with the
practice in order reflect on the processes of integration of an invention to
institutionalised artistic practices. In our view, a technology‹whether new
or old‹only has novelty value to the extent that its relation with the
represented object is opaque or transparent. In the manner of Bolter and
Grusin (1999), and of Gunning, we consider an emerging medium goes through a
phase of opacity during which its materiality is so visible that it can
literally obstruct its content. On the other hand, with increasing
competency of viewers, the opacity of the medium diminishes, giving way to
increasing transparency and to more space for content.
We invite contributions (in French or English) that return to the founding
texts of authors such as Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Brenda
Laurel, Janet Murray, Ted Nelson (cf. Packer and Jordan 2001) or Lev
Manovich (2001). Do digital media really give additionally inventive
capabilities to literature, cinema, and other arts? Is this device just a
simple improvement or could it be considered a medium of its own? We would
like to propose new avenues of reflection on the following:
·The idea that we have of new media, new media as dispositif
·Intermediality, interartialité, the promises of total works of art
(Gesamtkunstwerk)
·Concepts (or promises of interactivity, immersion, enhanced reality, etc.)
Submission deadlines:
-September 16, 2005 for the proposal (250 words);
-December 1st 2005 for the final version of the text (4500 words)
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