In search of a Poetics of the Spatialization of the Moving Image
Marc Lafia (part 1)

All comments here are provisional (including the title) and require a
greater exactness to elaborate a syntax of moving images as they relate to
the use of algorithmic procedures and multiple screens. The most interesting
writing I have found that can be useful in elaborating some of these ideas,
along the lines of time-shifting, are in the area of sound, along the lines
of spatialization a visual taxonomy relating to conceptual art photography
and procedures of display and Chrissie Iles essay, OEBetween the Still and
Moving Image'. I am sure there are some good things in VJ culture, as well
as other writings with which I am not familiar. Writings that address some
of the terrain discussed below would be of great interest for all of us, so
please do post.

What prompts me to write this; one, I am keenly interested in computation
and the image and two, having been to Documenta 11 and read the reviews of
Lev Manovich and Caspar Strache I find that they may be so close to this
work that they aren