Monday, April 22, 2013

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

Hi Thomas - Personally I hope some day that you can be the guest speaker at the US NSA convention - that would rock!
I would still enjoy attending one when I'm over in Europe some day.
Best, paula fleming


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Thomas Weynants - Media Archaeology - <thomas.weynants@telenet.be> wrote:

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

 

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Visual Media displays a very wide field of wondrous devices which opens a lot of opportunities for research and discovering in the field of Media Archeology.
To find out, visit the online Archeological Media_Museum of Early Visual Media.
http://www.visual-media.eu
 
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