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Vintage
Visual Media displays a very wide field of
wondrous devices which opens a lot of opportunities
for research and discovering in the field of Media
Archeology.
But, what kind of Early Media
are considered to be Visual
Media, forerunners and research topics in Media
Archeology, predesessors of today's
Multimedia, Virtual
Reality, and Time-Based
Media techniques? Obviously, most media
are visible but it's clear that this web site will
focus on a much more spectacular interpretation of
these combined words. To find out, visit this
online
Archeological
Media_Museum.
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possible explanation is that all media where
people try to reconstruct the visible world around us
for artistic and / or entertainment purposes falls within
the scope of this web site. Many devices on the subsequent
pages found their way in contemporary sophisticated
techniques.
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Mockery
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Visual Media is a Peepshow
into the Multimedia Pre-History.
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this web site will NOT handle about traditional, painting,
sculpturing, theatre, ...etc., although a lot
of the possibilities seen in these techniques will
be used in the previously mentioned artistic media.
- The Peepshow, as depicted
left, is only one of the many early visual optical
trickery devices we know.
- The reason why I include
these intriguing devices on my Visual Media web pages
will become much clearer when visiting them.
- Without being superior,
the explained items have something not seen in all
other art works.
In many cases however 'Visual Media' can be found,
hidden, in traditional visual works of art.
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Sometimes
Visual media are easy recognized but often the "extra
part " can be very well hidden
or misleading. Mostly
we see these things in their natural appearance but
often we see an illusion
created on purpose. Obviously, cinema is easy being
recognized as an example of visual media. The latter
is less obvious identified when we focus on Holbein's
"The
Ambassadors" where the
image of a skull is hidden with the aid of anamorphic
painting techniques.
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Indeed,
in many cases, the visual media are manipulating
our eyes or we will have to use our eyes
in a less obvious way, with or without the
use of extra instruments, optical or not. Visual Media
are capable to conjure up things that are not there
and make us to see effects that did not happen.
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But many
of the selected items are visual media, without any
hidden aspect but clearly visible "effect",
simply because they were produced
with the aid of other instruments, part of
this history, optical or not.
Due to limited availability of images and copyright
restrictions, this web site will always be incomplete
but at the same time searching for new information
to add.
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