http://news.absurd.services/taxonomy/term/627/all en http://news.absurd.services/screens <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-photos"><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-photos"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_photos" width="1000" height="218" title="image" alt="image" src="http://news.absurd.services/sites/default/files/image_0.jpg?1372571204" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-number-integer field-field-num-images"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> 1 </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p>We see in <em>Man on the Moon,</em> a biopic on Andy Kaufman, how he fragments his stage identity into multiple personas. These personas then become screens for new stories to unravel. In this text I propose the possibility of screens which are more than surfaces for projection. I set the ground for the next text which proposes a people-propelled-cinema. </p> <p>Are screens just flat viewing surfaces? Can we blur their sharp edges? By asking these questions I propose that screens being one of the basic units of media analysis, is not an absolute or simplistic. In questioning models of participation and reward in usership based communities and in audiences, by letting screens overcome their flatness, we have new complexities to deal with.</p> <p><a href="http://news.absurd.services/screens" target="_blank">read more</a></p> listening Sun, 30 Jun 2013 05:41:40 +0000 Prayas Abhinav 2220 at http://news.absurd.services