A hundred and fifty years ago, two inventions revolutionised the image: lithography and photog- raphy. Combined in contemporary photolitho presses , large-scale printing of photographs lead us into a new set of mathematised techniques. Refined through fax, TV and digital transmission, our imaging technologies are dominated by grids. This talk traces that history, and asks whether the unacknowledged presence of tiny squares is just a random blip in a chaotic cosmos, or per - haps a structural characteristic of the society we now inhabit: the database economy. >>> Genealogy of the raster display Sean Cubitt Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 11 November 2009
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A hundred and fifty years ago, two inventions revolutionised the image: lithography and photog-raphy. Combined in contemporary photolitho presses , large-scale printing of photographs lead us into a new set of mathematised techniques. Refined through fax, TV and digital transmission, our imaging technologies are dominated by grids. This talk traces that history, and asks whether the unacknowledged presence of tiny squares is just a random blip in a chaotic cosmos, or per-haps a structural characteristic of the society we now inhabit: the database economy.
>>> Genealogy of the raster display
Sean CubittPratt Institute, Brooklyn, 11 November 2009
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) Tour du gros horloge, Évreux Lithograph, 331mm x 245mm(detail of clockface above)
William Henry Fox Talbot, Latticed Window at Lacock Abbey, 1835
Stephen H. Horgan, Steinway Hall, New York Daily Graphic, December 2, 1873: first mass-printed halftone photograph.
Bell Labs Wirephoto, first commercial transmission, New York 1935
The Quatermass Experiment, BBC TV, 1953, dir Rudolph Cartier, scr Nigel Kneale