[Sci-tech-public] Colloquium - February 22nd with Tom Gunning

[Bianca Sinausky]

 "The Subway Series"

A Joint Colloquium Between Harvard History of Science and MIT Program in
Science, Technology, and Society

 

The "Illusion" of Motion:  The Suppression of the Moving Image through the
Explanation of the Apparatus

Tom Gunning, University of Chicago 

Abstract:

 

My paper will return to the nineteenth century and the devices known as
"philosophical toys"  -- the first devices to produce a moving image --  and
the common explanation  of their effects given in the era -- persistence of
vision - exemplified a central resistance to the very experience of  the
moving image qua moving. I maintain that a  deeply rooted prejudice in favor
of static images  forced conceiving of moving images as "illusions," rather
than as new modes of the interface between human perception ad technology.
Reinvestigating this century and a half long history of the repression of
the moving image as a phenomenological fact has shaped even the way that
current debates on the nature of the long tradition of cinema and other
moving images technologies have been conceived 

 

 

Monday, February 22, 2010

4pm

MIT, E51-095

 

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