What is Megapixel?
A two day conference with screenings to discuss notions of “High Definition” and the repercussions this will have on TV, Film, Photography, Art and wider culture. We wish to embrace all areas of academic, practitioner and industry research in regard to this burgeoning technology, its usage, and the issues and challenges it engenders. We hope to encourage discussion which demystifies and illuminates the potential of greater bandwidth, and the craving for the real in an increasingly visual society. We will be mixing responses from academic theorists, technologists, media practitioners and cultural commentators.
In Film and TV the move towards HD is a big challenge to practitioners and educators. What will we do with all those pixels? But the issues reach far wider than Film and TV technologies. Photography, Games and Education are being transformed by the same forces. But who is shaping this agenda and why? Why this obsession with the ‘real’? Who are the Movers and Shakers? Is UK PLC prepared? We hope this conference will answer some of these questions, and frame new ones. As part of the conference we’ll also be screening High Definition Films at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.
Contact us at MEGAPIXEL: megapixel*at*anglia.ac.uk or
MEGAPIXEL, Room MEL106, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK
The Conference will take place at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge.
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