Gunning....

An interesting passage is at the end of page 119 when Gunning states that as in the magic theater, the apparent realism of an image makes it a successful illusion but one understood as an illusion nonetheless. Gunning goes on to elaborate further but I can see the relevance of his point today in term of the videos, projections and so on that we have developed. Even an abstract work follows his statement in that as it is animated, it gains life and we relate to it as real, albeit an illusion of real.