Without disregarding the immense loss that the entertainment industry faced through the year 2020, it is important to note that there has been a huge leap in what live streaming services and digital technology have to offer. By using the definition Walpole gave to serendipity, as “the art of discovering things ‘by accident and sagacity…

In “Next Slide Please,” Jennifer Eisenhauer discusses a genealogy of image projection technologies: the magic lantern, the optical lantern and the nowadays omnipresent PowerPoint (2006, 199, 211). Or, more accurately: Eisenhauer dives into the discourses surrounding, and the visual epistemologies belonging to, these projection technologies, which have shifted from magic vision (the magic lantern used…

Frank Kessler, Jamilla Notebaard, and Nico de Klerk’s presentation, enlightened seminar listeners on the history of the Magic Lantern, and how the magic lantern was a (light-)source in transmitting knowledge to students. It is also worth noting, the magic lantern’s use for the spectacle; at the end of the 18th century, phantasmagoria shows were “illuminated…

Education and technology have been intertwined ever since the first burst of technological advancements and their dynamic entrance into the educational system. In light of the discussion held in the last Transmission in Motion seminar I would like to discuss the emergence of interactive multi-sensory environments (iMSEs) their use in primary school education, and the…

Trying to imagine studying and working without slide shows in the background might prove to turn into a highly challenging quest. That is especially valid nowadays, considering the ongoing pandemic that makes quite a significant number of people stay in their homes. Perhaps that certainty and obviousness characterizing our approach to slide shows somehow overshadow…

During the last session of Transmission in Motion’s series of seminars, Professor Frank Kessler and researchers Jamilla Notebaard and Nico de Klerk introduced us to their work, which takes into consideration and analyzes ways to divulgate knowledge through different technological apparatuses. Kessler focused on the semiotic structure through which works of art are encountered by…

In her article “Next Slide Please: The Magical, Scientific, and Corporate Discourses of Visual Projection Technologies” (2006) Jennifer F. Eisenhauer strips technological entities from a pre-determined, fixed meaning. According to Eisenhauer, “technology acquires meaning through a complex series of relations” (Eisenhauer 2006, 198-199). By means of a genealogy of slide projection technologies, Eisenhauer eloquently demonstrates…

Jennifer Eisenhauer’s work “Next Slide Please: The Magical, Scientific, and Corporate Discourses of Visual Projection Technologies” (2006) shows how material technology takes on meaning through complex relationships. We can see how discourse changes in historic and cultural contexts such as with the magic or scientific lantern. What interests me is the way that vision seems…

Having attended the seminar ‘Knowledge Transmission with the Lantern’ by Frank Kessler, Jamilla Notebaard and Nico de Klerk (24 Feb 2021), I note that with the advent of projection tools such as the optic lantern and photographic slides, there arose critical shifts not just in terms of how knowledge was transmitted, but indeed, how the…

It almost sounds like an item from a children’s book: ‘The Magic Lantern’. It evokes images of far off places, daring sword fights and magic carpet rides. In a way, these mental images are not far off. When listening to Frank Kessler, Jamilla Notebaard and Nico de Klerk in the Transmission in Motion seminar of…