Asíntota de la realidad. La influencia de las tecnologías digitales en la actual imagen sintética. Retos para el futuro
ISSN: 2254-4496
Year of publication: 2017
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Pages: 82-102
Type: Article
More publications in: Caracteres: estudios culturales y críticos de la esfera digital
Abstract
That digital technologies have transversally transformed all aspects of our culture is an undeniable fact. In the vanguard of this cultural revolution, the image has been subjected to profound transformations that are forcing to redefine its characteristics as a cultural object. Apart from the particular qualities of the digital image, derived from its numerical scaffolding, digital technologies have come to offer a suggestive set of tools for the synthesis that have illuminated a new image, the synthetic image, whose presence is contributing more and more to shape our current visual culture. Among these new technological developments, we want to present here a look at three concrete proposals: physically correct rendering, deep compositing and stereoscopy, for the transcendental and evocative challenges that they pose to the image today. The present paper emphasizes how these three technologies are now postulating an image that questions the ancestral bidimensionality, a soon three-dimensional image that the gaze can travel in depth and whose interior can be occupied, inhabited, as a real space and to which the new render algorithms will give a realistic aspect indistinguishable from the photocinematographic image, helping to dilute the border between virtual and real, and enabling a future of important progress at the aesthetic, conceptual and narrative level.
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