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The history of development of new forms of
communication or media's, is usually marked
by a distinct progression of forms.
1.You have the structure/aesthetics of
parent forms aped in the new form. eg Early
photographs use of aesthetic of genre
painting of immediate past.
2.Occurs once the technological
problems are sufficiently mastered to allow
experimentation into the media innate
possibilities, by borrowing's from forms
beyond the parental one, eg animations
incorporation of the illustrators craft
into the film media.
3.Final stage occurs when the medium having
a mature structure is fragmented under the
influence of other disciplines exploiting
it desires, outside of the media's original
domain. A cross-fertilisation through
innovation in usage tend to spout new
sub-cultures or alternative mediums. (eg:
the interaction of the computer sciences,
with psychology and psychiatry to give
birth to fertile fields of robotics and
Artificial Intelligence. )
By the First World War the mainstream of
film culture had reached the stage which
occurs once the technological problems are
sufficiently mastered to allow
experimentation into the media innate
possibilities, by borrowing's from forms
beyond the parental one, (eg animations
incorporation of the illustrations craft
into the film media). The Avant Grade was
pushing hard eg Fernard Léger
'Ballet Méchanique' 1942; Vicking Eggling 'Diagonal Symphony' 1921-25.
Art and Music were placing great
demands on the (abstract) film medium at
this time, which did not have the
technological stamina to see these dreams
beyond 10 minutes, due to the slow
consuming, labour intensive nature of the
craft, thus the examples are few and far
between.
Len Lye 'Rainbow dancer' (1936);
Oskar Fischinger 'Allegretto' (1936)
'Radio Dynamics' (1941); Walter Ruttmann
Opus I-IV (1921-27)
Nearly 30 years where to pass before
technology started to catch the dreams.
Complex electro-mechanical, then analogue
and digital computers finally provide the
technological muscle for the Whitneys.
John & James 'Five Film Exercise' 1943-44
James 'Lapis' 1963-66; John 'Catalogue' 1961, 'Permutations' 1967
This new-media of visual music is now
growing out its film and video heritage, is
now passing into the
development defining it's own unique aesthetic and vocabulary.
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