Ever
since the introduction of the Lumiere brothers' cinematograph,
the moving image has been a key part of shaping our
cultural and personal narratives, especially as these
images now freely move around the globe as part
of the electronic arcade.
For the purposes of our teaching
and research, we refer to this complicated process of
image-based cross-cultural transmission, interaction
and transformation as Lumiere Ghosting. The
images of ourselves and of others that comprise the
structure of the electronic arcade we refer to as Lumiere
Ghosts—ghost-like personas that we all leave
behind us as we journey through the arcade.
Lumiere Ghosts are also ghost-like
personas that have been created over time through their
persistence and repetition
throughout the environment of the arcade.
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