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Heftberger, Adelheid

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“…Relational-analytic methods build on previous work in quantitative film studies (Salt, 1974; Tsivian, 2009; Butler, 2014; Baxter, 2014), complementing classical statistical approaches with recent data science techniques. This also echoes existing work in the broader field of digital humanities, traditionally more focused on text and canonical artefacts than on popular audiovisual culture, but that is increasingly contributing scholarship about films and television analysed through computer vision technologies (Estrada et al, 2017; Heftberger, 2018; Mittell, 2019, 2021; Olesen, 2017; Smits and Wevers, 2022; Wevers and Smits, 2020).…”

Section: Machine Vision Cultural Analytics and Videographic Criticismsupporting

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Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice

Heras

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Based on the notion of critical technical practice and its resonances with recent debates in digital film and media scholarship, in this article I outline a type of computational practice that aims to couple the relational-analytic powers of machine learning with the explanatory-creative powers of visual narrative. I provisionally call this approach creanalytics. To enact this coupling, I designed a system to annotate and classify a large corpus of film clips, automatically extract fragments from this corpus, and edit them into new compositions, rendered into a computational supercut, which I go on to argue can be understood as the minimal expression of a broader emergent form of media: the computational video essay. Below I describe the most salient technical aspects of this system, analyse the principles of its design, and discuss the methodological and conceptual possibilities of its use as a format that mediates between critics and their networked environments, and between individual media artefacts, their parts, and the larger collections to which they belong.

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Section: Machine Vision Cultural Analytics and Videographic Criticismsupporting

confidence: 71%

Creanalytics: Automating the supercut as a form of critical technical practice

Heras

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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