Future cinema: the cinematic imaginary after film

edited by jeffrey shaw and Peter Weibel The MIT Press 2003

1. Plug-in without drop-out (caspar Stracke)


P586 "if the brain becomes the screen there would no longer be an interface; transmitter and receptor would coincide, so to speak. Direct interaction between the work of art and the brain would establish a new principle for interactive art: a genuinely limitless level of operating at which there would be no viewers any more, just active coproducers."

Patricia Pisters, From eye to Brain: reconfiguring the subject in film theory strand university press 2003

2. The Intelligent Image: Neurocinema or Quantum Cinema? (Peter Weibel) p594-601
otto Rossler, Endophysics, the world as an interface, world scientific, singapore, 1998

Interactive image 594
Image technology and its late-twentieth-century tendency to imitate life moved on from the simulation of movement (the motion picture) to the simulation of interaction: a responding and reacting image, the image as living system, the viable picture. The computer allowed the virtual storage of information as an electronic configuration. Information was no longer locked up magnetically or chemically as it had been on the filmstrip or videotape. The virtuality of information storage set information free and made it variable. The image became a picture field, its pixels because variables able to be altered at any time.
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This virtuality induced the variability of the image content.... it enabled the observer to control with his own behavior that of the image. The picture field became an image system that reacted to the observer's movement. The observer became part of the system he observed.

cinema and system theory: interface technology 596

The axiom of system theory is "Construction: Draw a distinction." We can see our borders: the skin, then a membrane. What was once called skin and membrane is now known as "interface technology." As the border that separates the system from the environment, interface technology differentiates the image from the real world.