Senior Thesis (Comps) Project
Posted: June 5th, 2006 | Author: Cameron | Filed under: New Media, Video, Writing | Tags: André Bazin, Art, Carleton College, Cinema, digital media, Diorama, Illusion, Immersion, media evolutionist, media theories, naturalistic media, New Media, Video, Writing | No Comments »
For my Art History Senior Thesis, or so-called “Comps” at Carleton College, I gave a historical comparative analysis of art that has striven in either form or function to provoke illusion in the viewer or cause the psychological phenomenon of immersion. From these works I traced the evolution of illusionistic concepts into the immersive realm of media and, finally, digital media, cinema, and beyond.
I demonstrated a progression of the desire to create illusionistic art and, more importantly, realistic or naturalistic art that ultimately strives to form an artificial reality. This artificial reality is the foundation of naturalistic and illusionistic art throughout history and, again, through comparative analysis with the application of several significant art and media theories I moved to incorporate new media and film theory into my project.
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