The Digtial Diorama: Stages, Scenes, Screens
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2023-09-13
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An observatory, a theatre, a spectacle; the Diorama posits an act of seeing through images that cannot be fixed. Marcel Duchamp’s installation: “Étant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d’éclairage” builds on the diorama as a staging of gaze; playing out the idea of perspective and the observer through a demountable approximation consisting of multiple media. Genres of architectural representations, styles, techniques, tools, and constructions, are all available now in the fertile, electric grounds of today. Partly documented, partly simulated, partly generated, and always fully digital, images are being produced ad nauseam, however the mechanics of architectural design and rendering remain as they were during the Renaissance; digital tools merely simulating a practice based on the conception of space of about 500 years ago. What is needed though, is not the construction of more or the optimisation of the existing, but the possibility of an abstraction; a way to stage and proportion the data-rich albeit noise-ridden world. This lecture will explore how the diorama can introduce a theatricality that goes beyond the ontological retreats offered by photography and physically-based-rendering. The illusionism of the Baroque, Alchemical automata, Tomography and AI based computer graphics and Vfx will be discussed not only as visual constructions but as characters on the stage of the Digital Diorama.
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Image Acts and Still Lifes: Art and Aesthetics of Forgetting
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Diorama; Rendering (computer graphics); Architecture Design
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03563 - Hovestadt, Ludger (emeritus) / Hovestadt, Ludger (emeritus)
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