in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

This article looks into the transportation of the Chinese epic wuxia 武俠martial arts genre to Korean cinema and asks how the genre changed when it became the muhy̆op武俠 of Korean cinema. In this paper, I intend to look behind the Korean version of the wuxia genre and tackle some of the questions it raises. How should we look at these movies with often intensely nationalist content, which at the sa...

Live audio-visual performance is an emerging area of new media arts practice that crosses between, and draws upon, multiple artistic traditions and trajectories. Under a range of nomenclatures – VJing, Live Cinema, Live Media, Expanded Cinema – artists work solo and collaboratively with sounds and images, and significantly, they do this in a performance context. Liveness, then, with its associa...

This paper describes the design of an expressive tangible interface for cinema editing as a live performance. A short survey of live video practices is provided. The Live Cinema instrument is a cross between a musical instrument and a film editing tool, tailored for improvisational control as well as performance presence. Design specifications for the instrument evolved based on several types o...

The question of whether architectural creativity is more of an artistic or engineering nature is one with a long history but also one with no conclusive answer. The art camp would argue that technology should be treated as a means towards and end, and that technology alone cannot give meaning to our lives. The engineering camp on the other hand would argue that good problem-solving result...

Neste ensaio, a partir do curta-metragem experimental Duelo, de Daniel Santiago, em primeiro lugar nos perguntamos o que aproxima performance ao mesmo tempo diferencia quando apresentada circuitos artes visuais ou teatro. Em segundo lugar, especulamos sobre as diferenças e aproximações entre atuação um ator no cinema performer. Nesse percurso foi necessário investigar seria uma performance. Ao ...