Montage as a participatory system: interactions with the moving image. (6th January 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moore, James
• Is Part Of: Design ecologies. Volume 1:Number 1(2011)
• Page Start: 113
• Page End: 132
• Publication Date: 2011-01-06
• Subjects: Design -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Sustainable architecture -- Periodicals; Sustainable design -- Periodicals; 720.47
• DOI: 10.1386/des.1.1.113_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2043-0698

Abstract

Recent developments in network culture suggest a weakening of hierarchical narratives of power and representation. Online technologies of distributed authorship appear to nurture a complex, speculative, contradictory and contingent realism. Yet there is a continuing deficit where the moving image is concerned, its very form appearing resistant to the dynamic throughputs and change models of real-time interaction. If the task is not to suspend but encourage disbelief as a condition in the user, how can this be approached as a design problem? In the attempt to build a series of design projects suggesting open architectures for the moving image, might a variety of (pre-digital) precursors from the worlds of theory, art, architecture and film offer the designer models for inspiration or adaptation.