The Boundless Spaces of Expanded Multimedia

Prof. Aleksandar Louis Todorovic

University of the Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Mediterranean University, Podgorica, Montenegro

Abstract:

Back in 1970 Gene Youngblood published his book “Expanded Cinema”, undoubtedly one of the major milestones in the world of media theory. In the book he argues that during the late 1960 cinema and the whole complex of audiovisual media, reached a tipping point when the boundaries of the world of moving images broke down and a new visual reality emerged. That was the time when the videosphere appeared and the intermedia where born.

Today, forty years later, we see another, somewhat similar event. The intermedia, which in the meantime evolved in multimedia, reached another “Seldon crisis point”, and we can witness how the whole complex of multimedia creation, processing, distribution and consumption undergoes a radical change. That change shall profoundly modify the world of mass media communications. The boundaries that until now separated different mass media are more and more blurred and in a not so distant future they might completely disappear creating thus just one big media industry.

About the Keynote Speaker:

Graduated from Belgrade University, Dpt. of Electrical Engineering, Professor Todorović spent over 40 years of his professional life in different areas of broadcasting. Among others, he held the posts of Deputy Director of Engineering, Director of Television Production, Editor-in-Chief, Director of R&D, all in Radio Television Belgrade and Executive Director of the Yugoslav Radio Television (JRT). In parallel with his broadcasting activities he held the Chair of Television Production Technology at Belgrade University of the Arts. During the 1990s he was Director and Dean of the International Academy of Broadcasting in Montreux, Switzerland. Currently, back in Belgrade, he is Chairman of the Board of Kompani, an engineering and programme production house, and teaches at Belgrade University of the Arts, and at the Mediterranean University in Montenegro.

Professor Todorovic was Chairman of the Technical Committee of the European Broadcasting Union, Vice-Chairman of the Study Group 11 of the International Telecommunication Union and currently is a member of the Council of the IBC, and Honorary Chairman of the Technical Assembly of the EBU.