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The Wretched of the Screen By Hito Steyerl THE POLITICS OF VERTICALITY CLASS RESEARCH STUDENT : STEF_TAM INSTRUCTOR : R_MENDEZ DATE 10.30.18

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THE WRETCHED OF THE SCREEN “Recent 3-D animation technologies incorporate multiple perspectives, which are deliberately manipulated to create multifocal and nonlinear imagery” 1. The creation of multifocal and nonlinear 3. For example, multiscreen projections cre- imagery allows for new representational freedom. ate dynamic viewing spaces creating new potential for varying perspectives. 2. Instead of a representation of reality, it can allow for perspective reality. 4. A step away from a “single unified horizon” PAGE 003

THE WRETCHED OF THE SCREEN “As [cinema] merges with graphic-design practices, drawing, and collage, cinema has gained independence from the pre- scribed focal dimensions that have nor- malized and limited the realm of its vision.” 1. Montage was considered the 3. For example, multiscreen projections cre- first step away from linear film viewing. ate dynamic viewing spaces creating new potential for varying perspectives. 2. With today’s technology, “new and different sorts of spatial vision [can] be created. 4. A step away from a “single unified horizon” PAGE 004

THE WRETCHED OF THE SCREEN “...the new tools of vision may also serve to express, and even alter, the contemporary conditions of disruption and disorientation.” 1. “the promise of its indexical relation to reality, has given way to hyperreal representations” 2. Transitioning from camera lenses to digi- tal tools to re-express versions of the real PAGE 005

THE WRETCHED OF THE SCREEN “Falling means ruin and demise as well as love and abandon, passion and surrender, decline and catastrophe. Falling is corrup- tion as well as liberation, a condition that turns people into things and vice versa.” 1. This vertical perspective that pries the 3. Proposal of this shifted perspective viewer from having a grounding point of perspec- leading to the reshaping of our social and tive, horizon line, and invokes new emotions for political perspectives” the viewer. 2. “It promises no community, but a shifting formation.” PAGE 006