Colour in Art and Media

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The Colour in Art and Media arena addresses the complex and central issue of colour in media spheres. A tentative outline of possible topics is suggested below.

Part 1: Colour in Art
  • Self-reflection and the first human paintings
  • Colour and creativity
  • Colour compositions in realistic paintings
  • Creating light and shadow with pigments and dyestuffs
  • History of colour materials
  • Ways of experimentation: De-constructing the “normal” perception
  • Literary imaginations—The stimulation of inner visions in poems and lyrics
  • Theme and mood—Colour in cinema
  • Set them free: The liberation of colours in animation
  • Virtual colours: Creating and changing moods with light and colour
Part 2:  Colour in Analogue Media
  • Re-creating history in black and white
  • Auto chromes: The great ideas of the Lumière brothers
  • The journey of colour photography all over the world
  • Hand-paintings—From daguerreotype to early movies
  • The complicated colour-struggle of the movie industry
  • Kodak chrome
  • Glorious Technicolor
  • Agfa colour: Colour and propaganda
  • The breakthrough of multi-layer film after the second world war
  • Eastman colour, Fuji and others
  • The red button and the start of the new era of colourful TV-entertainment
  • The sprawling archive—The private life in Agfa and Kodak-colour
  • The ephemeral colours of multi-layer films
Part 3:  Digital Colours
  • The colours of electronic media systems
  • Non-controllable colours in hybrid media and media transformation
  • The colour palette of the World Wide Web
  • Colour in 3D and other immersive media
  • Lucid and deep—The aesthetic of wide gamut monitor systems

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