From Celluloid to Silicon

The preceding analysis has made it possible to identify certain characteristics of the paper notations associated with analog experimental films – filiation with the artistic tradition and autonomous functioning in terms of generation and exhibition – and to grasp the nature of their main functions (operative, analytical). We will now examine how these notations prefigure certain aspects of the creative functioning of algorithms, before reviewing dispositifs that mark a phase of transition between the tradition of celluloid film and the advent of the digital.