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University / department
Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim
Mediengestaltung
University URL
Project supervisor
Prof. Philip Jackson Pocock
Supervisor commentary
Wormholes is an instance of the panvisuality of the banal everyday. Its aesthetic is as lightly hyperreal as its images are interwoven with holes through which the user may crawl from space to space building a panoramic cut-up from fragments of virtually experienced space encountered as a nonverbal hypernarrative. Its roots are in the diaramas and silent films of the earliest part of the last century as well as the most actual quasi-autobiographical correspondency inherent in current new network media productions.
Course abstract
Hypernarrative techniques and sociomedial aesthetics blend into a discourse of exchange between issues pressing youth culture, their identity, while bridging more historically rooted moving image syntax, and other issues relating to the haptic nature of video color, art historical precedents for network media such as the 'beats', and the notion that new narrative natures involve a sense of 'losing the way' for their users while still yielding a ray of hope of 'finding the way' to the heart of a rhizomatic narrative despite its labyrinth of possible tracks through broken stories and visual scenes.
Relation to the research area
digital cinema
flash 5
hypernarrative
hyperreality
interactive cinema
internet
panorama