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Incredible Machines: Following People Like Us Into the Database |
This site presents a series of investigations around a paper on early computer-generated movies at Bell Labs (and the documentaries that accompany them) through the contemporary cipher presented in the digital compilation movie We Edit Life (2002) by People Like Us (Vicki Bennett). A close reading of We Edit Life — tracing its myriad material sources, the mode and style of its composition, the networks of archival dispersion that screen the movie along with presenting its source material, and finally the broader art historical and contemporary cultural context within which the work embeds itself — offers a passage back into historical works operating at the birth of computer culture while refreshing their interpretation from our present vantage. |
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