About the live in live cinema

An ongoing investigation into the liveness of live cinema.
In the 1970’s cinema was expanded; in the 1990’s it met ‘new media’ as soft cinema. In 2010 the technological landscape is ripe to combine these, siting cinema in a live performance context. As such a body of work is built, called ‘live cinema’ by its practitioners and curators, it is worth taking a step back and asking just what the value of the live in live cinema could be?

1 - September 2010 Presentation of v1 at Laika, Berlin

2 - November 2010 Presentation of v2 at Interaction, Media and Communication Research Group, Queen Mary, University of London

3 - November 2010 Presentation of v3 at VJing Research Panel, Goldsmiths, University of London

4 - April 2011 Presentation of v4 at Interdivisional program in Media Arts and Practice, University of South California

5 - April 2012 4,000 word Essay for Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London.

The latest slide deck and essay can be downloaded at the bottom of the page, an early recording of this presentation is below, and following this are some links referenced in the presentation. I expect this to evolve over the course of my PhD, so a conclusion should come by late 2013.

Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences, a documentary by Seth Thompson
http://www.seththompson.info/html/interviews/levmanovich.htm | http://vimeo.com/15473078

Live Cinema Documentary
http://tobyz.net/tobyzstuff/projects/livecinemadoc