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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

➤ a new list of links

➤ a new list of links

after those posted here begins * Charles Baudelaire materials: 1. Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, trois versions, 1857-1868, texte en français; text attributed to the searchable online resource Athena 2. Charles Baudelaire, Poems of Baudelaire: A translation of Les Fleurs du Mal, Roy Campbell, 1952. See also Marthiel Mathews

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

moving image: theory | context: lecture 8

With gaming it feels like we take a step back... from the multimodality John A. Bateman attributes to digital media. Bateman’s research engages multimodality in representation. We are interested in multimodality in expression. So our definitions, in particular our definition of what constitutes a mode, differ. Bateman finds the

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

moving image: theory | context: lecture 7

We started our story of modulation, how a mode of form becomes what it is, with the example of the Lumière brothers’ Le repas de bébé. Part, perhaps not the most important part of the programme of cinema, motion writing, shown on 28 December 1895 at the Salon Indien, Grand

lectures on moving image: theory | context

lectures on moving image: theory | context

Below please find links to a series of lectures I delivered to first-year students, before they specialised in digital image-making, film, motion graphics, VFX (very popular), game development (also very popular), animation or post-production, in 2022 at (although, since during COVID-19, distantly) AUT. Bergson, Deleuze &

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

moving image: theory | context: lecture 6

I want to do two things here. I want to ask what drives narrative? And I want to bring in this idea of modulation. What is it? And what is it that it is our topic today? I have some idea. I have some idea that the two questions are

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

moving image: theory | context: lecture 5

Welcome! ... The Hero’s Journey. Is this the student’s journey? The academic journey you are at the start of? Is the hero’s journey the student’s journey? No. Because we each have our own brand of heroism, right? ... Weirdly, it is kind of my academic journey. I finished

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

moving image: theory | context: lecture 4

The gap in which there’s a thought. And a character who thinks it. And to the character belongs a world. Without the character no world. And no structure. We learnt in the first lecture that structure follows from the terms that actualise it. So, in a way, we are