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- Количество слайдов: 101
Muybridge, Descending a Staircase 1884
In 1927, Baird transmitted a signal over 438 miles (705 km) of telephone line between London and Glasgow. In 1928, Baird's company (Baird Television Development Company/Cinema Television) broadcast the first transatlantic television signal, between London and New York, and the first shore-to-ship transmission.
A time-space machine The architecture of an idea A weightless paradigm An ideological apparatus A GOD machine
Between 1933 and 1936 the most extensive television complex in Europe was located beneath the main concourse at the Crystal Palace in London, instigated by Baird, incl. high definition television broadcast transmitters, receivers, cathode ray tubes, microwave relay systems, photocells, magnetrons and telecine equipment
When the tower opened in 1899 thousands rode the 300 m up in the elevators to take in the panoramic, aerial view, in which the “once invisible roofs & now clear labyrinths of alleys & streets” became suddenly available to the eyes of these new observers, and Paris became, as Robert Hughes says, “a map of itself, a new type of landscape [. . . ] based on frontality & pattern, rather than on perspective recession & depth. ”
Gutenberg Galaxy (1454/1962)
Evolution of time and motion study into a technique for improving work methods & systems. The challenge of reconciling “open-ended” industrial progress with humanism. Final integration of “man” and “machine”
Hollerith
The artist invited 30 women to “donate” parts of their bodies, which were scanned to create both visual & auditory analogues. From these, conglomerate “bodies” were assembled, animated and made interactive, becoming part of an ongoing morphological process.
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