Chromatropes and Dissolving Views
Cinema Before Cinema in the Werner Nekes Collection
Decades before the Lumière brothers' Cinématographe, projecting moving images were already one of the highlights of the 19th century. Painted glass pictures served as image information for the projection. This lecture questions the status of such objects for Nekes' conception of a revised and innovative media history and discusses their potential for future uses in the field of tension between digital access and live performance. (Translation TWS)
Biography
Prof. Dr. phil. Martin Loiperdinger was Professor of Media Studies at the University of Trier, with research projects focusing on Screen1900, projection art and early cinema, most recently on the film star Asta Nielsen. Co-founder and co-editor of KINtop - Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des frühen Films (1992-2006) and KINtop - Studies in Early Cinema (since 2011). Television films, exhibitions, DVDs, books and essays on the media history of projection art, film and cinema, most recently "Not Only Divas: Cinema Advertising in Trieste before the First World War" (Early Popular Visual Culture 2021). (Translation TWS)