Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations Kinematographische Objekte: Dinge und Operationen -------------- International Conference of the Junior Fellow Program »Theory and History of Cinematographic Objects« July 11-13, 2012, IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. --------------
Films are assemblages of things: suitcases, revolvers, cars, shower curtains, bones that turn into spaceships within a split second. Insofar as these »things« make their peculiar appearance on film, they can be called cinematographic objects. The complexity of cinematographic objects resides in the fact that their very definition is always implicated in an ever-evolving network of associations with: 1) things on film, 2) the materiality of filmic images, and 3) the mechanical and operational relationships between the apparatuses necessary for their production (i.e. cameras, editing equipment, projectors, microphones, etc.) Following the »Cinematographic Objects« workshop in 2011, the conference »Cinematographic Objects II: Things and Operations« continues to negotiate the relations between artifact and operation. On the one hand, it seeks to closely interrogate the specificities of film and cinema according to film and media theoretical concerns with the cinematographic operations of object construction, as well as the peculiar nature and properties of things objects, and artifacts in film. And on the other hand, it also welcomes discourses on the transformations and migrations of things between film and other disciplines and areas of study such as art history, natural sciences, politics, and the everyday. www.ikkm-weimar.de/thingsandoperations -------------- Timetable Wednesday, July 11 19h-20:30h Lorenz Engell (IKKM Weimar): On Objects in Series: Clocks and MAD MEN Thursday, July 12 9.30h Volker Pantenburg (IKKM Weimar): Introduction OBJECT AND EVENT 10h-11h Francesco Casetti (Yale University): On the Screen: Event or Object? 11h-11.30h Coffee PROPS AND HISTORY 11.30h-12.30h Sabine Hake (University of Texas, Austin): On the Lives of Objects 12.30-13.30h Marcus Becker (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Römisches Wasser. Zur Kinematographie des Aquädukts 13.30-15h Lunch BODY AND ANIMATION 15h-16h Lesley Stern (UC San Diego): »It once was fire«: this thing that once was a body 16h-17h Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London): The Peculiar Ecstasy of the Animated Object 17h-17.30h Coffee LABORATORY AND PROJECTION 17.30h-18.30h Jimena Canales, Joana Pimenta, Lindsey Lodhie (Harvard University): Desired Machines Friday, July 13 ROUND AND ROUND 9.30h-10.30h Thomas Elsaesser (Yale University): Fairgrounds, Carousels and Ferrara Frescoes 10.30h-10.45h Coffee CAMERA AND MOVEMENT 10.45h-11.45h Kenneth White (Stanford University): On the Matter of Snow 11.45h-12.45h Rosa John (Universität Wien): Kamera // Bolex 12.45h-13.30h Snacks IMAGE AND LOCATION 13.30h-14.30h Annette Urban (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Eine Ding-Grammatik des Films als Bilder-Inventar. John Baldessari und John Stezaker 14.30h-15.30h Ulrike Hanstein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Rückprojektionen. Bilder des Schauplatzes und Schauplätze des Bildes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentations in English or German. The conference is open to the public. No fees and no registration required. Organized and moderated by: Marius Böttcher, Maeve Connolly, Dennis Göttel, Friederike Horstmann, Maria Imhof, Jeffrey Kirkwood, Jan Philip Müller, Volker Pantenburg, Maya Vinokour, Linda Waack, Susanne Wagner, Regina Wuzella. Conceptualized in the frameworks of: Junior Fellow Program "Theory and History of Cinematographic Objects" at the Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Free State of Thuringia. -- Diplom-Kulturwissenschaftler (Medien) André Wendler Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Internationalen Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Cranachstraße 47 99421 Weimar Telefon +49 36 43 58 40 17 www.ikkm-weimar.de/wendler -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/
