Artistic Reflection on the Return of Digital Film Aesthetics: From Metaverse to Professionalism Explained

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_23How to use a DOI?

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Cinematography; digital cinema; metaverse; virtual reality; art aesthetics

Abstract

The idea of cinema as a present, holistic, moving image seems to prevail in the debate over whether it is indexical or digital due to three findings: first, due to exposure time, even in traditional film, indexicality is difficult to achieve a true “one-to-one” correspondence, and subjectivity can take advantage of this to enter the image, interrupting the indexical recording process rather than making it continuous. Second, rather of using local, initial, material features to refer to and define film - which is not film but rather should be viewed as an integration of moving images - the essence of film needs to be founded on the entirety of what comprises film, the final form of film. Third, digitalization is not entirely non-indexical; rather, because the conversion of optical images into coded images introduces more observable, artificial content, it increases the subjectivity of the digital image and intensifies the interruption of indexicality (the invisibility of what was once in the exposure time). These findings allow film to continue to push the frontiers of materiality and interact with other technologies and cultures while still remaining existentially relevant as an ontology.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ying Xu
AU  - Na Wang
AU  - Wenni Zhang
AU  - Jian Zhang
AU  - Xiaoxin Cheng
AU  - Hui Jing
AU  - Ying Yang
AU  - Longzhu Sun
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Artistic Reflection on the Return of Digital Film Aesthetics: From Metaverse to Professionalism Explained
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 184
EP  - 189
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_23
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_23
ID  - Xu2023
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