#TSAM (The Still And Moving) --- SynTalk

How are you experiencing time now? Is everything moving? Is the Still merely an ‘extract’ from the flux? Do images constitute both matter and memory? Can a 3D representation be created from several 2D images? How is motion detected? Is the interrelationship between the cameras themselves crucial to figuring out the structure of space? Is the moving image (truly?) a composite of still images? What lies between the moving and the still – GIFs? Is the perceptual world constituted by our senses? Is sensory stimulus itself always ambiguous? Can moments be appended if they are not already there? What exactly does exposure do to a photograph? Can you make stories out of whatever images you see? If Word is Photograph, then what is Articulation? Is cinema an art of time? Why do we have two eyes? Why is sports photography also physical? Do you bother lizards? Are dreams a field of action? Are still pictures ‘deeper’; why do they hold our gaze? Can only interesting things be perceived? Is high-level, purposive, & affective robotic vision possible in the future? What is our future like? &, will we belong, think, remember, & act differently in the world? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from photography (Arko Datto, Kolkata), computer vision (Dr. Venu Madhav Govindu, IISc, Bangalore), & critical theory (Dr. Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Ambedkar University, New Delhi). Listen in...