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Conference Presentations by Tony Patrickson
Lecture notes from: 'Visual Elucidation in the Video Essay'. Presented at the 12th Irish Screen S... more Lecture notes from: 'Visual Elucidation in the Video Essay'. Presented at the 12th Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Dublin City University. 11th May, 2016.
Thesis Chapters by Tony Patrickson
The extraterrestrial view of the Earth from space has a long historical continuity within Western... more The extraterrestrial view of the Earth from space has a long historical continuity within Western cultural traditions of art and literature, one traceable back to classical Greek and Roman thought. This essay examines - in both a written and a video form - the surprisingly mutable nature and function of this particular image as it appears within a range of historical and contemporary films. In order to analyze such imagery, I draw upon 19th century concerns with the panoramic and the sublime as informing agencies, along with certain psychological and philosophical questions raised by Earth imagery in relation to cinematic realism. Part of this research involved interviewing NASA astronauts about visual experiences in orbit as an investigative mechanism to distinguish terrestrial biases built into cinematic conventions. I also discuss the manner in which the video essay interacts with the textual material, generating a series of overlapping perspectives upon the abstract and emotional capacities of film when dealing with a conceptually anisotropic visual subject.
Talks by Tony Patrickson
An examination of how certain readings of the concept of kataskopos can be followed in visual for... more An examination of how certain readings of the concept of kataskopos can be followed in visual form across the cultural timeline from the 19th century to the early 21st. Using a process of juxtaposition it examines how images drawn from manned spaceflight, art history, film, commerical publishing and software design encode variable meanings within ostensibly similar views of the Earth seen from above.
This paper was given at: "The view from above" study day held at the Department of Art History, Cambridge University in March 2019.
Lecture notes from: 'Visual Elucidation in the Video Essay'. Presented at the 12th Irish Screen S... more Lecture notes from: 'Visual Elucidation in the Video Essay'. Presented at the 12th Irish Screen Studies Seminar, Dublin City University. 11th May, 2016.
The extraterrestrial view of the Earth from space has a long historical continuity within Western... more The extraterrestrial view of the Earth from space has a long historical continuity within Western cultural traditions of art and literature, one traceable back to classical Greek and Roman thought. This essay examines - in both a written and a video form - the surprisingly mutable nature and function of this particular image as it appears within a range of historical and contemporary films. In order to analyze such imagery, I draw upon 19th century concerns with the panoramic and the sublime as informing agencies, along with certain psychological and philosophical questions raised by Earth imagery in relation to cinematic realism. Part of this research involved interviewing NASA astronauts about visual experiences in orbit as an investigative mechanism to distinguish terrestrial biases built into cinematic conventions. I also discuss the manner in which the video essay interacts with the textual material, generating a series of overlapping perspectives upon the abstract and emotional capacities of film when dealing with a conceptually anisotropic visual subject.
An examination of how certain readings of the concept of kataskopos can be followed in visual for... more An examination of how certain readings of the concept of kataskopos can be followed in visual form across the cultural timeline from the 19th century to the early 21st. Using a process of juxtaposition it examines how images drawn from manned spaceflight, art history, film, commerical publishing and software design encode variable meanings within ostensibly similar views of the Earth seen from above.
This paper was given at: "The view from above" study day held at the Department of Art History, Cambridge University in March 2019.