Course Schedule

Start > Leuphana Bachelor (B.A./B.Eng./B.Sc./LL.B.) -> Major Kulturwissenschaften -> Kunst und Medien

Lehrveranstaltungen

Art and Visual Media: from Chronophotography to VHS (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ana Teixeira Pinto

Termin:
 wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 02.04.2019 - 02.07.2019 | C 12.111 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The first devise able to record a series of sequential photographs was developed by an astronomer, Pierre Jules César Janssen, in order to observe the “Transit of Venus”, an elusive astronomical phenomenon that occurs only twice every century. The “revolver photographique”, was a huge camera system equipped with a cross shaped mechanism, similar to the disk in a colt revolver, able to rotate clockwise, taking 48 exposures in 72 seconds on a daguerreotype disk. Unlike Muybridge’s earlier experiments, the “revolver” did not require a series of separate cameras. Janssen’s apparatus led to the invention of chronophotography, when in 1882 Étienne-Jules Marey adapted and improved it into a device able to capture 12 frames per second. Though chronophotography’s original purpose was to help scientists study objects in motion the new field swiftly developed into a broader industry. As astronomy moved away from the field of optics altogether, embracing the higher accuracy yielded by physics, chronophotography ceased to be an obscure technology used for astronomical measurements or studies of motion, to become the defining medium of modernity, and the most powerful manifestation of the budding entertainment industry. The seminar will survey the history of optical media and its relation to visual culture, from its embryonic forms such as chronophotography to its ultimate democratization with the introduction of consumer level analog video recording. Co-extensively, the seminar will also examine the ambivalent relation between modern art and modern media, and their, at times intersecting, at times diverging, relative trajectories. One part of the seminar will be held in a video archive/exhibition in Berlin. The excursion is an obligatory

Contemporary Art and Visual Media. Excursion to a Video Archive (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Ana Teixeira Pinto

Termin:
 Einzeltermin | Fr, 07.06.2019, 14:00 - Fr, 07.06.2019, 20:00 | extern | Excursion to the arsenal archive (Berlin)
Einzeltermin | Sa, 08.06.2019, 12:00 - Sa, 08.06.2019, 19:00 | extern | seminar session in Berlin

Inhalt: This second part of the seminar is dedicated to the Film Archive of the Arsenal (Deutsche Kinemathek) (to be confirmed) and will include studio visits to contemporary artists.