The
Lumiere Ghosting Project and the CompuObscura is a reaction
against many current video and new media art installations
that often appear enraptured with the marvels and immediacy
of the image technologies with which the artists are
working (Packer & Jordan).
Even if the stated “theme”
of these works is to critique modern media, or the influence
of corporate images on everyday life, we feel that many
of these works tend to be fairly shallow or too simplistic
in their critique and seem unaware or unconcerned with
the histories that feed into the technologies in use.
As
we worked to develop the first manifestation of our
moving image theater, the CompuObscura, we noted that
many of the digital art and interactive new media works
we reviewed seemed to deal with media use, and misuse
“issues” that the artists often claimed
to be quite recent developments, with a dip into a history
spanning only ten or twenty years
(Morley).
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