Digital Encounters

<p><em>Digital Encounters</em> is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation cinema games and installation art.</p><p>In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds game spaces and art works reveals aspects of the ways in which we organize and decode the vast amount of visual material we are bombarded with each day.</p><p>Working with examples from <em>The Incredibles The Matrix Tomb Raider: Legend</em> and Bill Viola's<em> Five Angels for the Millennium</em> Aylish Wood considers how viewers engage with the diverse interfaces of digital effects cinema digital games and time-based installations and argues that technologies alter human engagement distributing our attention across a network of images and objects.</p>