Genealogies of Digital Light, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Wednesday 29 November 2006
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2006
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Melbourne Authors
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Arts: Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law
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Cubitt, Professor Sean (2006) Genealogies of Digital Light, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Wednesday 29 November 2006.
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The light of the world, casting light on dark places, enlightenment (East and West), the light that goes out of the eyes of the dying: illumination is more than physics. It is a central human metaphor. Those metaphors in turn are not only remnants of ancient paganisms and old beliefs, though they are in that respect ways in which we recall our otherwise anonymous ancestors. They are also tools that shape our thinking, that structure some of the great accounts of light from Grosseteste's De Luce (in MacKenzie 1996) to Newton's Opticks (1952), Goethe's Farbenlehre (1967) to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity andPlanck's foundational observations on the principles of quantum dynamics. And of course light is central to the techniques, technologies and discourses of the visual arts, and among them not least of photography. Light is the raw material of photography, in a purer sense than is true of any of the earlier visual arts save perhaps stained glass.
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Visual Arts, Photography, Light.