The Fundamentals of Digitalisation of Works in the Historical Art of Projection as Applied to Media History, Methodology and Media Technology

本研究项目的目的是为研究历史上的投影艺术创造基础条件。它在19世纪末发展成为第一个连续的视觉大众媒体，将图像投影到画布或屏幕上，成为1900年后电影兴起的决定性技术。然而，由于当时在表演和演讲中投射的玻璃图像大多保存在私人收藏中，也就是说，不能公开访问，因此投影艺术几乎没有被研究。借助数字人文的方法和工具，可以有效地消除这一研究障碍。这就需要生成数字源版本，其中考虑到投影艺术作为表演媒介的独特表演性。国际标准的应用允许数字访问投影艺术作品，而不受时间或区域限制。因此，该研究项目将开发应用于媒体历史，方法论和媒体技术的投影艺术历史作品数字化的基本原理，为投影艺术的第一个国际门户网站创造条件，因为它适用于媒体研究和信息技术。这个门户网站允许共享访问这个视觉文化遗产。它提供了一个虚拟的研究环境，使投影艺术作品以关键数字源版本的形式访问，以研究媒体历史以及对艺术和社会科学感兴趣的学者。为此，该项目将制定适当的数字复制方法，并制定汇编、确定Meta数据和存档的标准。为了展示现存的玻璃影像在历史时期演出中的表演潜力，本项目将开发各种模式的幻灯片系列数字化重建和变速放映效果，并配以文字和音乐。因此，在项目结束时，国际放映艺术门户网站将具备两个不可或缺的要求：1.数字手册的基本方法和媒体历史，包括强制性和可选的内容元素的源版本，数字化标准和媒体技术的过程：手册数据（文本，插图，动画功能模型）将直接转移到门户网站数字服务（说明，检索上下文，帮助系统）。2.虚拟研究环境将使第三方能够在编辑监督下自行生成门户网站的内容。

The aim of the research project is to create fundamental conditions for researching the historical art of projection. Its development into the first sequential visual mass media at the end of the 19th century established the projection of images onto a canvas or screen as the universal technology which decisively contributed to the rise of films after 1900. Nevertheless, the art of projection has hardly been researched because the glass images projected in performances and lectures at the time have survived mostly in private collections, that is, are not publicly accessible.With the aid of methods and tools of the digital humanities this obstacle to research can be removed effectively. This requires generating digital source editions which consider the unique performativity of the art of projection as a performance medium. The application of international Standards allows the digital access to the works of the art of projection without temporal or regional limitations. Therefore the research project will develop fundamentals of digitalisation of works in the historical art of projection as applied to media history, methodology and media technology to create conditions for the first international web portal of the art of projection as it applies to media studies and information technology.This web portal is to permit the shared access to this visual cultural legacy. It provides a virtual research environment to make works of the art of projection accessible in the form of critical digital source editions for research into media history and for interested scholars in the arts and social sciences. To this end, the project will develop appropriate methods of digital reproduction and establish standards for compiling, determining meta data and archiving. In order to illustrate the performative potential of the surviving glass images in period performances, the project will develop various modes of digital reconstruction of projected slide series and projection effects at variable speeds with spoken texts and music.As a result, two indispensible requirements for the international web portal of the art of projection will be available at the end of the project:1. The digital manual with the fundamentals of methodology and media history, including the obligatory and optional content elements of the source editions, digitalisation standards and processes of media technology: The handbook data (texts, illustrations, animated function models) are to be transferred directly into the web portal digital services (instructions, retrievable context, help system).2. The virtual research environment is to enable third parties to generate the content of the web portal themselves with editorial supervision.