Re: [-empyre-] Merleau-Ponty weighs in on Nicolas Clauss' "Nocturne"

[Barbara Lattanzi <threads@wildernesspuppets.net>]

At 09:48 PM 3/20/2005, you wrote:
> i aslo like the idea barbara that you actually read or feel a work through
> the mouse.
> yes as well as sight and sound now we have touch as a semiotic system of
> interpretation, different from the touch of turning a page or selecting a
> channel on a tv remote.
> an intuitive clue to navigating the work that can be found only with the
> mouse, that can't be seen "here i am, a button" or can't be read "press
> me", but, "oops something happened then, i'll go this way"


thanks, Kominos.

I also relate this to the historical figure of the film projectionist.  I 
am interested in how that incidental role of someone who mediated the 
cinema experience for an audience now coincides with the viewer's own act 
of emotional projection through interactive gestures.  What was once 
marginal to the cinematic experience (its mechanical projection) is now 
foregrounded and central.

Barbara



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