The Art of the Database:

an Introduction to New Media through Dziga Vertov

Lessons from Vertov:

1. Database / Narrative

2. The Langauge of effects

3. Loops / narrative (new temporality)

4. Non-illusionistic compositing

From the Avant-Garde to Software:

5. Pilot's eye -> flight simulators -> virtual camera

6. "I am a mechanical eye" -> subject-less machine vision

7. Montage -> window interface

8. "Visual Esperanto" -> human-computer interface