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- When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's "Family of Man," Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
- About the Author: Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto.
- 368 Pages
- Art, Film & Video
- Series Name: Leonardo
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When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's "Family of Man," Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope. Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement--to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants. Marchessault shows that Edward Steichen's 1955 "Family of Man" photography exhibition, for example, and Jacques Cousteau's 1956 underwater film Le monde du silence (The Silent World) both gave viewers a sense of the earth as a shared ecology. The Festival of Britain (1951)--in particular its Telekinema (a combination of 3D film and television) and its Live Architecture exhibition--along with Expo 67's cinema experiments and media city created an awareness of multiple worlds. Toronto's alternative microcinema CineCycle, Agnès Varda's 2000 film Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, and Buckminster Fuller's World Game (geoscope), representing ecologies of images and resources, encouraged planetary thinking. The transspecies communication platform the Dolphin Embassy, devised by the Ant Farm architecture collaborative, extends this planetary perspective toward other species; and Finnish artist Erkki Kurenniemi's "Death of the Planet" projects a postanthropocentric future. Drawing on sources that range from the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes to the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marchessault argues that each of these media experiments represents an engagement with connectivity and collectivity through media that will help us imagine a new form of global humanism.About the Author
Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .82 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.18 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 368
Series Title: Leonardo
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Film & Video
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Janine Marchessault
Language: English
Street Date: October 31, 2023
TCIN: 91006995
UPC: 9780262549745
Item Number (DPCI): 247-23-4177
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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