Salon Digital – Ricardo Cedeño Montaña
Micrographs of colour is both an installation and a media history lecture. On the installation side, it explores the intricate geometry that at a micro-scale is responsible for the (re)production of colour sensations in cell phones. The lecture describes a set of technical and scientific ideas behind the (re)production of colour in technical media such as film, TV, and digital video. Using a media archaeological approach to technical media, this lecture shows that colour in technical media is anything but stable and such instability implies different contexts of sensory data processing and storage. This presentation is divided into three parts: In the first part I will briefly discuss some aspects of the history of colour science and in the following two sections I will concentrate the analysis first on film media formats and second on the (re)production of colour in electronic television and on digital screens for mobile devices.
Dr. Ricardo Cedeño Montaña, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia:
He is a media archaeologist, multimedia artist, and Professor. His artworks have been exhibited at different events in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Germany. His most recent research work focuses on the media archaeology of computer graphics and digital colour. He is the author of Portable Moving Images, (Degruyter 2017). Currently, he is a full professor at the Faculty of Communications and Philology at the University of Antioquia, Colombia, where he promotes algorithmic thinking for digital creation and experimental approaches to technical media analysis. He has worked as a professor of archaeology and media history, industrial design and digital art at the Universidad de Caldas, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Hochschule Bremerhaven, and Universidad de los Andes. He holds a PhD in History and Theory of Culture (2017, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Germany) and an MSc in Digital Media (2009, Hochschule Bremerhaven, Germany). In Colombia, he studied Multimedia Creation (2003, Universidad de los Andes) and Industrial Design (1999, Universidad Nacional de Colombia).