In an interview, printed in English in 'The uses of literature',
Italo Calvino expresses delight at the thought of machines
(computers) producing literature, actually taking over the history of
literature, literally exterminating the author, so that for humans
reading can become the defining moment it has deserved all that time
(so much for Sokal's experiment!).
If there is an interesting aspect of new sciences entering cinema
these days, it seems to me rather to lie in that area. When computers
have actually been engineered to deliver as complex and advanced 3-d
spaces as seen in SecondLife and the Sims, we seem a very short way
from feeding some software on basic narrative structures and let it
roll from there.
The programme would deliver some bad films, others better, but learn
from reception, and in the not so distant future, the ratio could be
similar to today's Hollywood – perhaps with an 'open source' human
involvement, as a lot of people are already behaving within these
systems from day to day. On the basis of 'artificial evolution',
though, innovation is very possible without involving people too
much. Calvino's dream might come true in cinema long before
literature (perhaps due to the differance more drastically inherent
in text than images, perhaps merely because there is more money in
images these days …)
The end or beginning of cinema – anyone interested in developing the
monster?
H.
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