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| Video: Video refers to visual and audio content recorded and played back through electronic means, capturing moving images and sound. It encompasses various formats, from analog to digital, enabling the recording, storage, transmission, and display of visual information._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Vilém Flusser on Video - Dictionary of Arguments
I 196 f Video/Flusser: relatively new element in the codified world. One cannot predict yet how they will work. They are "dangerous" because it is still possible to distract them from the intention for which they are designed. They are "revolutionary" such as cars are "revolutionary", which are used for sexual intercourse instead of car traffic. >Revolution/Flusser. I 197. The video tape cannot be edited, it rolls off as it was recorded. A completely new kind of repetition of history. The video can make time spatial by displaying "earlier" on the tape as "behind". ((s) Flusser wrote at a time when videos were recorded on tape and could not be manipulated because they were in cassettes that could not be opened.) The video will not be cut. You can "erase" the time, just like texts written on a blackboard with chalk. Different superimposed layers of time can be eliminated so that a hidden time layer becomes visible, a process known as "emergence" from psychoanalysis and archaeology. >Time, >Psychoanalysis. Instead of a mirror: a monitor that is in the middle of the scenes and has a kind of dialogue with itself. I 198 It is not a classic mirror with right/left inversion and therefore does not provide a mirror image. Since cathode light is a very rare light that does not come directly or indirectly from the sun, the monitor is bathed in an extraordinary and revolutionary light. I 199 The TV works like a window through which things are shown beyond the horizon, the monitor acts like a mirror of current or past events. >Television. The family tree of the video is divided into water surface, mirror, microscope, the one of the film in cave walls, house wall, framed picture, and photography. >Image/Flusser, >Cinema/Flusser, >Photography/Flusser. Video is essentially dialogical. You can watch something from the end or a little bit delayed. I 200 ff Television/Flusser: the operation is simple, but the reasons why the box works are opaque. Such systems are structurally complex and functionally simple. >Complexity. On the contrary: systems whose structure is transparent, but which are difficult to handle. Like chess. >Chess. I 201 Television is characterized through the fact that the person playing with them becomes a match ball him-/herself, the game swallows him/her. >Play. It is a common opinion that the family sits in a semicircle around the box, which therefore occupies the place formerly occupied by the mother or teacher. Wrong: The box is not a transmitter, but the end point of a beam. The semicircle is a segment of a gigantic circle that is invisible to the people occupying the space. Images and sounds are received as if they were traditional pictures and sounds. For the receiver, they mean "scenes". The recipients suppress their nebulous knowledge of the apparatus, he is not a bit of a good believer, but works (with a bad conscience) with the intended deception that the signs are signs for scenes. >Signs. In fact, there is a specific image for decoding all other images: the "announcer" of this image "announces" whether the following images are facts, fictions (e.g. TV games) or imperatives (advertising). >Facts, >Fictions, >Imperatives. I 202 These differences cannot be deduced from the pictures themselves. The "announcer" can also be fictitious, e.g. an actor who mimics an announcer. As a result, the recipient is indifferent whether he or she is informed factually, fictitiously or imperatively. Since he/she pretends as if "images of the world" would be pouring out of the box, it is not important to him/her whether this world is factual or imperative._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Fl I V. Flusser Kommunikologie Mannheim 1996 |
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