Operational Images,Embodied Viewing,and Gesture Control in the Era of Touch Screens:A Media Archaeological Analysis of the Phenomenon of"Browshing a Phone"
Operational Images,Embodied Viewing,and Gesture Control in the Era of Touch Screens:A Media Archaeological Analysis of the Phenomenon of"Browshing a Phone"
Since the release of the first generation of iPhone and other significant devices in 2007,the ubiquitous touchscreen interface is shaping the current visual culture,and forming a"touchscreen viewing"characterized by"playing with mobile phones"and"browshing videos".With touchscreen as an intermediary,the viewing activity becomes the trinity structure of screen-image/video-viewer,in which the body is involved and the screen image becomes the"vision+"that must be operated.From the perspective of media archaeology,this kind of"touchscreen viewing"is a backwash to the classical film viewing theory,namely"window mode",and forms a distant echo with the manual optical toy mode in the 19th century,continuing the remote control viewing since the 1970s,forming a non-linear media development clue and narrative logic with the theme of embodied viewing.Back to the current phenomenon of"browshing video",continuous finger movements such as sliding up,clicking and pinching realize a series of changes in the image,which becomes a new visual action vocabulary for touchscreen viewing.With the help of touchscreen hardware and software algorithms,the screen is more and more deeply integrated with the user,forming a symbiotic relationship between human and machine.
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