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PRESENTATION

The New Media and Photonics Lab is the result of interdisciplinary convergence between cinema and networks, which takes place through the group of Research on Contemporary Art and Languages, the Program for Postgraduate Studies in Education, Art and History of Culture and the Photonics Department from the Postgraduate Studies in Electrical Engineering, both from Mackenzie University. The cinema traditionally worked with the capture, editing and montage of images, which generated a new form of contemporary visual narrative. Currently there are technologies that modify the conventions of film considered as "natural" and insert others that came directly from the advancement of technological devices connected to the manipulation, editing and creation of images. With the advent of computer programs and systems for image capture in super high resolution is possible, nowadays, to obtain moving images with resolution that exceeds 8 million pixels per frame of film, which would mean in the tradition of analog cinema of 24 frames per second, that one second in the digital image would have the equivalent to 192 million pixels. Thus, film cameras, that currently have a restricted use due to the difficulty in acquiring this technology and also to understand it, can capture images which consists of another materiality, different from what we had in the analog film. Besides the display technologies, another important factor that becomes part of the interests of the group of the New Media and Photonics Lab is the possibility of transmission through photonics networks of high-definition movies.

GOAL

The Lab aims to study at what point the convergence between networks and film may lead to other forms of distribution, circulation and production of movie images.