What is anything?

Ultimately, Manovich uses this writing to focus on cinema as the basis for new media and the effect that  these new (digital) mediums have on the moving image today.

Topical Highlights:

(google: tropical highlighters)

-The way that we interact with images within our culture in a new media context is considerably different than how we have before.

-On the net, images are icons. Images now have implied depth. They have links and they extend into a virtual reality. 

-I enjoyed Manovich's mention of the 2 levels of the computer based image: the surface~ or how we perceive the image and the source~ the code and functions of the computer that create the image we perceive. What are the possible uses of revealing/understanding that background information? Should the image be strictly accepted as how we perceive it, or should we perceive it while accepting the fact that constantly our knowledge is limited, and thats ok.

(google: alan watts)

-Virtual space exists and can be created. This is not a piece of paper that I'm writing on. But the process equates so long as we all agree that the experience feels true. We interact (tele act) in this virtual space and experience real time and real life results. Underlining Manovich's mention of physical reality being only one possibility. 

-I've been trying to figure out how film can fit into my work as a symbolic medium. It helped to read Manovich's description of fictional films as recordings of real events. Whether an event/visual experience is artificially created or not, it's capture in virtual or physical space means that in a way it has truth. How could the creation of a fictitious event (a suggested reality) effect an individual's perception of space, of self, of time? The answer is greatly, and the following question is: what kind of reality will I create and why?

(google: second life)

"Pixels, regardless of their origin, can be easily altered…"