An increasing part of our daily lives is spent staring at screens. Erkki huhtamo kurenniemi, or the life and times of a technovisionary looking back at erkki kurenniemis career, one easily notices a seeming paradox. From kaleidoscomaniac to cybernerd gebhard sengmuller. Kittler and jussi parikka and siegfried zielinski and wolfgang ernst and erkki huhtamo. Erkki huhtamo bio some years ago i began an article calling for screenology with what sounds like a blatant truism. Media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles by erkki huhtamo. Erkki huhtamo pdf erkki huhtamo, media historian and pioneering media archaeologist, is professor in the department of design media arts at the university of california, pdf director. The moving panorama, a forgotten mass medium of the 19th.
In illusions in motion, erkki huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. There seems to be a parallel between the emergence of. The first international conference on the histories of media art, science and technology held at the banff centre for the arts, alberta, canada, from 28 september to. On the arehaeology of imaginary media eric kluitenberg 4. Erkki huhtamo s media archaeology erkki huhtamo, illusions in motion. With a quarter century of focused, original research in numerous languages, it sets the scholarly standard for media. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a window by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Media arts an introduction syllabus description media arts an introduction is a broad survey of the media arts. Circular panoramas, the large permanent installations that. Applications, and implications with erkki huhtamo, university of california press, 2011 and what is media archaeology. Erkki huhtamo media archaeologist, historian, exhibition curator. August 23, 2019 admin marketing leave a comment on erkki huhtamo pdf. Toward an archaeology of the screen a covered framework, partition.
The moving panorama, a forgotten mass medium of the 19th century abstract. I note that there are entries both on moving panorama and myriorama, and that myriorama has a moving panorama subsection. Media archaeology, anarchaeology and media materiality, authorfriedrich a. Short bio 75 words pdf full bio 1475 words pdf portrait. Huhtamo and parikka, is that this is precisely its strength and value. Design is a powerful force in contemporary society and culture. And especially the late ralph hyde who was so welcoming and supportive to me when i was the new kid on the block and knew nothing. Erkki huhtamo pdf erkki huhtamo, media historian and pioneering media archaeologist, is professor in the department of design media arts at the university of california, io leggo. An archaeological exploration of peep media during the second world war, frederick kiesler, an expatriate german designer and architect living in new york city, received an interesting commission. Etymologies and semantic shifts erkki huhtamo a screen can be tentatively defined as an information surface. Ceram puts the prehistory of the motion pictures straight. A special thankyou goes to professor erkki huhtamo for the collaboration on our. Pdf click to increase image size click to decrease image size.
On the origins of the origins of the influencing maehine jeffrey sconce 5. These two have often been prophesized to merge into a single convergent multimedia terminal. In a forthcoming paper, media archeologist and scholar erkki huhtamo considers the trend. Erkki huhtamo media archaeologist, historian, exhibition. Check out pictures, bibliography, and biography of erkki huhtamo. Read illusions in motion pdf media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles by erkki huhtamo the mit press tracing. Erkki huhtamo s remarkable book is a massive archaeological dig revealing a long lost city that we still inhabit, carefully dusting off the foundation of the illusions that continue to move across our screens, walls, and cities. Huhtamo was born in helsinki, finland and has a phd in cultural.
Visit s erkki huhtamo page and shop for all erkki huhtamo books. I would propose the consolidation of these articles into a single, mainentry article on moving panorama, with a smller and distinct article on the myriorama toy, along with a disambiguation page. Panoramas enjoyed widespread popularity in the 19th century. The publication of erkki huhtamos illusions in motion is a further step in this. Media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles, mit press leonardo book series, 20, 456 pp an article from journal cinemas le remake. Media arehaeology as topos study 27 erkki huhtamo 3. We recently shared a few images from erkki huhtamo s illusions in motion, and the ucla daily bruin took a peek inside huhtamo s office and interviewed him about his artifact collection in a neat video. The advent of new media in common parlance, a loose conglomeration of phenomena such as the internet, digital television, interactive multimedia, virtual reality, mobile communication, and video games, has challenged many scholars to investigate the media culture of late modernity.
Challenging the prowestern bias of media history1 on september 14, 1792, the british caricaturist james gillray published an engraving. Communication every cultural pattern and every single act of social behaviour involves communication in either an. The theories and concepts of media archaeology have been primarily elaborated by the scholars and cultural critics thomas elsaesser, erkki huhtamo, siegfried zielinski, and wolfgang ernst, taking off from earlier work by michel foucault on the archaeology of knowledge, walter benjamin on the culture of mass media, and film scholars such as c. It has an impact on us, whether we are aware of it or not. Media archaeology of the moving panorama and related spectacles, erkki huhtamo traces the development of the moving panorama medium in its multiplicity of technological and discursive forms during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The essays move beyond journalistic reportage and hype into serious but accessible discussion of new technologies, new media, and new cultural forms. The user interface was where the encounter between the work and the user took place. By a panorama we usually mean a circular 360 degree panoramic painting shown in a cylindrical building.
Erkki huhtamo illusions in motion media archaeology of the. In addition, he is the editor of a collection of wolfgang ernsts writings, archives, media and diagrammatics of cultural. Huhtamo reflected upon the impact of the work of the journal under the inspirational and impactful leadership of knight and weedon, and we looked towards future research priorities in the now established field of convergence studies for which we are indebted to our predecessors. Like a few other internationally recognized scholars of media culture, i graduated from the university of turku in finland, where i first studied world literature, but soon. Huhtamo is an internationally renowned media historian and theorist, and also a specialist in the.
Toward an archaeology of the screen a covered framework, partition, or curtain, either movable or fixed, which serves to. Sustainable cinema is a series of kinetic public sculptures that merge natural power with perceptual illusions to create a moving image. By a panorama we usually mean a circular 360 degree panoramic painting shown in a cylindrical building erected for the purpose. Pdf on jan 1, 2015, simone natale and others published the historian. Trouble at the interface, or the identity crisis of. Illusions in motion by erkki huhtamo overdrive rakuten.
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