Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambiguity of his visual expression reveals an anarchic temperament (to be distinguished from an anarchist politics ). Petri shifts rapidly between shots of rich chaos and those of extremely centralist organization, both invested with a dazzling immediacy. On the one hand he presents vast spatial compositions of dramatic confusion-interrogation theatres, modernist offices often shot through glass. Venetian blinds, bars, iron grates, cocktail glasses-creating an atmosphere of energetic but menaced licentiousness. On the other hand he devastates his defenseless audience with huge, authoritarian close-ups and compositions organized metonymically, transforming objects, into fetishes, frozen fascinations that dominate the image...
PETRES anarchic vacillations and Volonte's schizophrenia both fuse contradictory elements rather than separate them conceptually, and hence should not be confused with the method of dialectical opposition, which is essential to scientific political analysis. The visual tendencies of chaos and centralism are often married within a single shot, and cutting tends to minimize confrontations rather than emphasize them, on both image and narrative levels. Internal contradictions remain implicit and unarticulated dualities, emotional more than rational. The illusion-reality double ending is perhaps the film's ultimate equivocation, refusing to make even one unambiguous political statement on the crude level...
...hooked up with a micro wave transmission system at M.I.T.; with WGBH, and ultimately with a larger Boston-Cambridge community antenna television system. Community events could be televised live. Visual study projects, lectures, seminars, and films could be taped and transmitted...
...with the input and response time of dozens of human brains simultaneously," Biophysicist Sinsheimer laments. Besides, the brain can call up only a limited amount of stored information at a time to focus it on a particular problem. And while it can grasp as many as 50 bits of visual information at once, it cannot file away more than 10 of them per second for later reference...
Author Taylor, on the other hand, sees nothing wrong with solitary pleasure. Some day, he writes, a man may be able to put on a "stimulating cap" instead of a TV set, and savor a program of visual, auditory and other sensations. He and other futurists envision "experience centers" or "drug cafés" that would replace bars and coffeehouses. There, perhaps with the help of "dream machines," one might order a menu of "enhanced vision, sensory hallucinations and self-awareness." One might also be able to experience the mental states of a great man, or even of an animal. Molecular...