July 3, 2000
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Lying With Pixels talks about near realtime video-manipulation that can be performed on live or taped video content. I find it both incredibly fascinating from a technical perspective and ethically frightening that it’s now possible to add or remove anything (or anyone) from supposedly authentic footage.
“So what’s the big deal, you ask. After all, Stalin’s staff routinely airbrushed persona non grata out of photos more than a half-century ago. And Woody Allen ushered a variation on reality morphing into the movies 17 years ago with Zelig, in which he inserted himself next to Adolf Hitler and Babe Ruth. In films such as Forrest Gump and Wag the Dog, reality twisting has become commonplace.”
Sure, we’ve had the ability and technical means to edit, retouch, and otherwise manipulate static and dynamic visuals for ages, but we haven’t been able to do the same to live broadcasts. Until now.
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