18/06/2005

Syntax Root: Loop

FROM TEMPORAL MONTAGE TO SPATIAL MONTAGE
THE LOOP AS NARRATIVE FORM

A subtext of Syntax Root: Loop looks at how narrative techniques such as montage and loop are creating a web of influence, connections and exchanges between media art, music, film and video. Criticizing the simple history of influence from novel to film, Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form (1977), considered the nineteenth-century novel a precursor for the cinematic imagination. A generation later Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media (2000), proposes that the loop be a new narrative form appropriate for the computer age.

Screenings:
SOCIETY OF THE SPECTICAL (A DIGITAL REMIX)
by DJRabbi (Mark Amerika, Trace Reddell, and Rick Silva)
FILM 1964
by Samuel Beckett