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Julia Noordegraaf and Ivan Kisjes 3D Visualization as a Tool for Cinema History
400 years of cultural industries in Amsterdam www.create.humanities.uva.nl 3
Datasets 400 years of newspapers KB Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands EcArtiCo: Amsterdam art market Golden Age Study Platform for Interlocking Nationalisms Cinema Context Collection Theater Institute Netherlands Data Science in the Humanities 4
Central questions: How have cultural industries shaped Amsterdam s unique position in a European and Global context, from the 17th Century until the present day? How did Amsterdam s urban economic and social fabric contribute to the development of its creative industries?
Programme: 1. Historiography 2. Data and sources 3. Methods & Tools
Organisation: 1. Computational analysis & visualization 2. Golden Age 3. Long 19 th Century 4. 20 th and 21 st Centuries 5. Data retrieval & analysis 6. Amsterdam 4D
Young researchers Postdoc researcher Pre-PhD fellows Student-assistents
Julia Noordegraaf (UvA Mediastudies) Loes Opgenhaffen (CREATE 3D modeler) Norbert Bakker (student-assistant CREATE) Ivan Kisjes (CREATE programmer) 9
Aims of the project Utilization of digitized cinema heritage collections 3D visualization as a tool for cinema history 3D visualization of Émile Reynaud s Théâtre Optique, Museu del Cinema Girona
Cinema Parisien First permanent cinema theatre in Amsterdam Opened in 1910 Art deco interior in 1924 Adult movie theatre Closed in 1987 Parisien zaal MoW register
Spatial turn in Cinema Studies See cinema as social experience, conditioned by factors such as transportation networks, ethnicity, and social group as well as cinema architecture, ticket prices, and the changing patterns of work and leisure. Julia Hallam and Les Roberts, Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014.
New Cinema History The experience of cinema does not exist outside the experience of space, and, as such, is the product of historically specific, embedded material practices of performance, of display, of exchange, of architecture, social interaction, of remembering, as well as of signification and cinematic representation. Robert C. Allen, The Place of Space in Film Historiography. Cinema in Context. Special issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (2006): 15-27.
New Cinema History The experience of cinema does not exist outside the experience of space, and, as such, is the product of historically specific, embedded material practices of performance, of display, of exchange, of architecture, social interaction, of remembering, as well as of signification and cinematic representation. Robert C. Allen, The Place of Space in Film Historiography. Cinema in Context. Special issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (2006): 15-27.
New Cinema History The experience of cinema does not exist outside the experience of space, and, as such, is the product of historically specific, embedded material practices of performance, of display, of exchange, of architecture, social interaction, of remembering, as well as of signification and cinematic representation. Robert C. Allen, The Place of Space in Film Historiography. Cinema in Context. Special issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (2006): 15-27.
New Cinema History The experience of cinema does not exist outside the experience of space, and, as such, is the product of historically specific, embedded material practices of performance, of display, of exchange, of architecture, social interaction, of remembering, as well as of signification and cinematic representation. Robert C. Allen, The Place of Space in Film Historiography. Cinema in Context. Special issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (2006): 15-27.
New Cinema History The experience of cinema does not exist outside the experience of space, and, as such, is the product of historically specific, embedded material practices of performance, of display, of exchange, of architecture, social interaction, of remembering, as well as of signification and cinematic representation. Robert C. Allen, The Place of Space in Film Historiography. Cinema in Context. Special issue of Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis 9.2 (2006): 15-27.
3D as Research Tool Re-creating no longer existing places Externalizing the process of thought Testing different hypotheses Validation through documentation The London Charter (2009): Paradata Present users with free navigation of content in context
Level of Certainty Index Color chart divided in 10 colors. From 1 to 10, resp. from red to green, from tot +. Red/1/- = uncertain or no evidence. This part of the virtual reconstruction is totally imagined. Green/10/+ = certain. The CH object is still there or parts remained visible. Loes Opgenhaffen, 3D modeler CREATE
Results Focus on 1910 version Extensive documentation Database for sources Creation of paradata Evaluation relevance history cinema consumption
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Evaluation Transparent model Architecture reconstructed Impression of performance and exchange Evocation social context abstract (scale, no function) Interdisciplinary research Testing previous assumptions ( mincer system) Convey sense of space and place ( historical sensation ) New form of historiography?
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