Dear List members,
Hope we meet during one or more lecturing occasions?
Choose your favorite animated PowerPoint lecture theme, combine or program them all.
The lectures explains the history and use of popular optical, kenitic and time-based media entertainments & toys before the dawn of cinema and include the early history of television which predates film. Please inform for conditions.
Lecture 1
Optical toys, Pre-Cinema and Media Archaeology:
Such as Magic Lanterns & slides, Peepshow boxes & views, Anamorphoses, Phenakistiscopes, Choreutoscopes, Anorthoscopes, other kinetic toys etc.
- Phantasmagoria or Death in the projected image before the invention of cinema.
- Persistence of Vision.
- Optical Theatre effects. Pepper's Ghost effect.
- Etc.
Lecture 2
Photography, early processes and special subjects:
Forerunners, beginnings and early processes: Physionotrace, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, etc.
- Ghost's, Post-Mortem, Diableries or different aspects of Death in Photography.
- Stereophotography.
- Chronophotography.
- Vintage nudes.
- Etc.
Lecture 3
Fairground Arts: Grand Théâtre Mécanique Frère Morieux and Media Archaeology
“Oh. You shall see vat [sic] you shall see”
- Theatrum Mundi Puppets and Moving Panoramas on the Fairgrounds of Ghent and Paris, c. 1900.
- Mechanical Theatre Puppets, Moving Panorama's on the Fairground.
- Pre-Cinema & media archeology on the Fairground.
- Etc.
Lecture 4
Mechanical Television: The origins of television before the invention of Cinema
- Forerunners and early Broadcasting by Mechanical Television prior to Electronic Television.
Special attention can be given on collections available on location. (please inform)
More information: http://www.visual-media.eu/lectures.html
I will also welcome invitations from abroad.
(see previous lecture references on the same page)
Thomas Weynants
www.visual-media.eu
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