Expanded Cinema: History, Society, Technology

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Expanded Cinema: History, Society, Technology (Symposium)
London Central Saint Martins
Wednesday 22 April 2009

Building on the conference "Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception" at Tate Modern (17-19 April 2009) this seminar will explore the social, historical and technological connections underpinning expanded cinema. The symposium will be followed by a programme of Australian film video and multi-projection curated by Sue.k.

Speakers: William Raban (London College of Communication), Lawrence Daressa (California Newsreel), Lauren A. Wright (The London Consortium), David Erol Fresko Jnr (Stanford University), Chris Sams (London College of Communication), Rebecca Ross (Central St Martins & Harvard), Adam Kossoff (Wolverhampton).

Please note that the Expanded Cinema Archive Video Library will be available to the public in the Tate Modern Starr Auditorium Foyer from 17-22 April 2009.

Seminar Programme:

10.30 am
Session one will address the technological changes of avant-garde as well as mainstream forms of cinematic presentation and production and their effects on historical and contemporary interpretations of Expanded Cinema. 20-30 min illustrated papers will be followed by Q+A with the audience.

David Erol Fresko Jnr (Stanford University)
‘Multiple-Image Composition in the Age Before Griffith’

Chris Sams (London College of Communication)
‘Expanded Archive: Kubrick, Manovich, Kittler’

Rebecca Ross (Central St Martins & Harvard)
‘All Above: Henri Giard's Ballon Captif at the 1867 Exposition d'Universelle’

Adam Kossoff (Wolverhampton)
‘The Aesthetics of Technics’

1 pm - Lunch Break

2 pm
Session two will look at the shifting social context of expanded cinema; a live form that seeks to situate and activate the spectator in many ways. 20-30 min illustrated papers will be followed by Q+A with the audience.

Lawrence Daressa (California Newsreel)
‘Expanded Cinema as ‘Social Change Media’: California Newsreel since 1968’

Lauren A Wright (The London Consortium)
‘Present: Context and Spectatorship in Expanded Cinema’

William Raban (London College of Communication)
‘Structural Film: Expanded Cinema and Reflexivity’

4.30 pm - Drinks Reception

6.30 pm - FRACTURED LIGHT
This programme of recent experimental film and video from Australia includes single and multi-screen work by Tobias Dundas, sue.k., Madeline Quirk, David Brian Short and Richard Tuohy. Curated by sue.k. Presented in association with cogcollective.

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Innovations Centre Conference Room
Central St Martins College of Art and Design, Southampton Row, London,
WC1B 4AP
Nearest Tube: Holborn

This event is free but places are limited.
To book, email Duncan White

www.studycollection.co.uk
www.rewind.ac.uk/expanded/Narrative/Home.html

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