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[Commlist] Iluminace (2/2024): 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟����𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩����𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨����𝐢𝐧𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢����𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢���� published
Mon Nov 18 15:16:50 GMT 2024
The new special issue – 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫
𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 – is out!
Guest editor: Veronika Hanáková
Read the issue (open access) here:
https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn2.php
<https://iluminace.cz/en/magno/ilu/2024/mn2.php>
The central question of this special issue of Iluminace (2/2024) is:
What if we shifted our perspective, asking not how computers have
transformed moving images, but rather how audiovisual media represents
the imagery and iconography of computers themselves? This issue delves
into the complex and often contradictory portrayals of "computer
labor"—work facilitated by information technologies, whether executed by
humans, machines, or through human-machine collaboration—in film and
television.
The concept of computer labor serves as a lens to examine how computing
technologies shape representations of work. This approach allows for an
analysis that moves from depictions of specific moments of the machine
or human at work (or both) to broader inquiries into how productivity,
value, and even rest are defined within digital frameworks. Tracing the
iconography of computer labor in audiovisual media also uncovers the
roles of geographical, cultural, social, and economic influences,
revealing how technological labor is produced and understood within
varying contexts.
By following these representations, this issue underscores the
transformative impact of digital labor and highlights the significance
of its localized expressions and historical contingencies, encouraging
readers to consider how audiovisual representation of digital work
shapes and reflects our broader social and cultural landscapes.
This issue features both written papers and audiovisual essays. The
lineup includes:
✱Veronika Hanáková: Configuring Computer Labor in Film and
Audiovisual Media: An Introduction to a Special Issue
<https://bit.ly/4empYa8>
✱Steve F. Anderson: Envisioning the Interface
<https://criticalcommons.org/view?m=it2cP9eh2>✱Daniel O’Brien: The
Allure and Threat of the Cine-Computer: A Supercut of Onscreen
Computers in Speculative Screen Fiction <https://youtu.be/LdHXj-09lVw>
✱Occitane Lacurie: Ordinatrices: About the Negative Spaces of Early
Computing <https://youtu.be/s-FwBeohmfo>
✱Simone Dotto: Do Corporate Films Dream of Cybernetic Governance?
Computers (as Metaphors of) Industrial Labor and Society in
Olivetti-Sponsored Films <http://bit.ly/3CAWurJ>
✱ Matěj Pavlík: Techniques and Technologies to Compensate for
Powerlessness <https://youtu.be/WPiyoRjTsrE>
✱Tibor Vocásek: Who Is Awful? Black Mirror and the Dystopian
Imaginary of AI Labor <https://bit.ly/3CoPgXP>
✱ David Álvarez: Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be: On
Vaporwave’s Glitched <https://bit.ly/4fJlo6T>, Aspirational
Aesthetics <https://bit.ly/4fJlo6T>
And book reviews:
➤ Ondřej Zach: Karlovarský festival jako platforma kulturní výměny i
zbraň hybridní války
(Jindřiška Bláhová, ed., /Proplétání světů: Mezinárodní filmový
festival Karlovy Vary/
/v období studené války/)
➤ Veronika Hanáková: Seriously Unserious: Theoretical Implications
of the Gimmick
for Film and Media Studies (on Sianne Ngai, /Theory of the Gimmick:
Aesthetic Judgment/
/and Capitalist Form/)
More:
Website: https://iluminace.cz/ <https://iluminace.cz/>
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ILUMINACE
<https://www.facebook.com/ILUMINACE>
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videographic_archives/
<https://www.instagram.com/videographic_archives/>
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