--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
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
All requests are welcome via this group.
Thomas Weynants
thomas@visual-media.eu
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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
All requests are welcome via this group.
Thomas Weynants
thomas@visual-media.eu
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