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Some
Lumiere Ghosts began as images of real people (as with
Monroe)but then quickly
translated into iconic representations of a form that
other people can inhabit over time (such as the image
to the right of Monroe which is actually a male performer
reenacting a famous photograph of a famous female).
Other Lumiere Ghosts were never real at all, such as
the ghost of Superman
which is continually represented and inhabited by a
wide range of real and virtual personas for a wide range
of reasons and to a wide diversity of effects.
This complex process of image
creation, animation, transference, and reconfiguration
is central to the modern cultural subconscious, and
often influences our public and private lives in
ways often too subtle to fully comprehend (Barthes).
The Lumiere Ghosting Project is an attempt to explore
this process as students and as researchers, and through
the development of the CompuObscura, we hope to comment
on the process through the creation and "physical"
manipulation of Lumiere Ghosts inside the CompuObscura
environment.
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