Media Archaeology lecture - 'From the Camera Obscura to Mechanical Television'

Dear List members,

 

The current lecture, 'From the Camera Obscura to Mechanical Television', is constantly updated.

 

For education purposes, a 3 to 4 hour lecture on ‘Early Visual Media Archaeology’ is available on-demand / invitation.

For Museums, Universities, Art Schools, Conventions, Conferences, Courses, Film festivals, Collector meetings, etc.

 

Learning about Visual Media Archaeology: Pre-Cinema, Photography, Film, Television + Related fields, Fairground Arts & Conjuring.

Presented by Thomas Weynants, author of the Early Visual Media website.

 

Content of PP lecture:

The lecture explains the history and use of popular optical, kenitic and time-based media entertainments and toys before the dawn of cinema and include the pre-film history of early Television. Special attention is given on the search into animated images in different media.

 

Optical toys & Pre-Cinema versus Media Archaeology:

Such as Magic Lanterns & slides, Peepshow boxes & views, Anamorphoses, Phenakistiscopes, Choreutoscopes, Anorthoscopes, other kinetic toys etc.

Special subjects:

- Phantasmagoria or Death in the projected image before the invention of cinema.

- Persistence of Vision.

- Optical Theatre effects. Pepper's Ghost effect.

 

Photography:

Forerunners, beginnings and early processes: Physionotrace, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, etc.

Special Subjects:

- Ghost's, Post-Mortem, Diableries or different aspects of Death in Photography.

- Stereophotography.

- Chronophotography.

- Vintage nudes.

 

Fairground Arts:

Pre-Cinema & media archeology on the Fairground.  Theatrum Mundi.
Mechanical theatre and moving panorama

 

Mechanical Television:

Forerunners and early Broadcasting by Mechanical Television prior to Electronic Television.

 

Special attention can be given on collections available on location. (please inform)

 

Thomas Weynants
www.visual-media.eu

Online Media Archaeology
www.media-museum.eu

Photographer - Collector - Fantasmagore
* Member of "The Magic Lantern Society of Great-Britain"
* Member of "The Ephemera Society of Great-Britain"

Google Group Media Archaeology:
Early Visual & Time-Based Media Techniques
http://groups.google..com/group/visual-media

- Pre-Cinema: Optical Toys, Magic Lanterns, etc
- Phantasmagoria (Death in pre-film)
- Conjuring Arts, Physique Amusante & Illusions
- 19th.Century Photography
- Early Film & Animation Film
- Mechanical Television before 1935
- Fairground & Circus Arts
- Mechanical Theatre & Theatrum Mundi