Main content

Still Life Versus Moving Image

Are moving images taking over from still ones? And, if they are, are we losing the ability to focus on pictures that don't leap about?

Are moving images taking over from still ones? And, if they are, are we losing the ability to focus on pictures that don't leap about? Online it's an all-dancing, all-singing world of video-clips and animated commercials. On the London Underground, moving digital-panels are replacing advertising posters. Contemporary art frequently involves video or performance or motion of some kind. The Strand debates the merit of still vs moving with the curator William Ewing and the neuroscientist Kristine Krug.

How can a modern composer make a 300 year old piece of music - that everybody knows - sound new and 21st century? Max Richter has recomposed Vivaldi's Four Seasons

Photo: Frederick J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Available now

18 minutes

Last on

Mon 12 Nov 2012 12:32GMT

Chapters

  • Still Life Versus Moving Image

    Are moving images taking over from still ones?

    Duration: 09:23

  • Max Richter

    How can a modern composer make a 300 year old piece of music sound new and 21st century?

    Duration: 08:05

Broadcasts

  • Fri 9 Nov 2012 20:32GMT
  • Sat 10 Nov 2012 03:32GMT
  • Mon 12 Nov 2012 09:32GMT
  • Mon 12 Nov 2012 12:32GMT