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MANOVICH, Lev, The Language of New Media, ed.The MIT Press, London, 2001.

Lev Manovich
Spacial Computerization and Film Language
New Temporality: the loop as a narrative engine
"(...) A loop, a repetition, created by the circular movement of the handle, gives birth to a progression of events - a very basic narrative which is also quintessentially modern; a camera moving through space recording whatever is in its way. (...) The history of new media tell us that the hardware limitations never go away: they disappear in on area only to come back in another. (...) Can the loop become a new narrative form appropriate for the computer age? It is relevant to recall that the loop gave birth not only to cinema, but also to computer programming. (...) Steven Neale describes how early film demonstrated its authenticity by representing moving nature: are looped over and over, we see blades of grass shifting slightly back and forth, rhythmically responding to the blow of non-existing wind, which is almost approximated by the noise of a computer reading data from a CD-ROM. "
Spatial Montage and Macromedia
"The logic of replacement, characteristic of cinema, gives away to the logic of addition and coexistence. Time becomes spatialized, distributed over the surface of the screen. In spacial montage, nothing is potentially forgotten, nothing is erased.(...)In contrast to the cinema's screen, which primarily functioned as a record of perception, the computer screen functions as a record of memory."