Hollis Frampton: Meta-History and Media Archeology
The New Media Workshop is pleased to present
Hollis Frampton: Meta-History and Media Archeology
a discussion co-led by Lisa Zaher, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History and Jim Hodge, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Chicago
Of the arts, only photography, along with its prodigious sibling, the cinema, has appeared during historic time. – Hollis Frampton
An acclaimed filmmaker, photographer and media theorist, Frampton is a major figure in the American avant-garde. Witty and ambitious in scope, his films engage with philosophy, mathematics, and science, offering perspectives on the relation of life and media that transcend deterministic polarizations. This meeting will focus on Frampton’s writings on the historicity of media in three texts:
“Incisions in History / Segments of Eternity”
“For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypotheses”
Interview with Bill Simon on the Magellan Cycle
Friday, October 16
10:30-12:30, Cobb 310
Refreshments will be served
This meeting of the New Media Workshop accompanies Critical Mass: Re-Viewing Hollis Frampton, a series of screenings at locations throughout Chicago between October and January, culminating in a Symposium at the Film Studies Center, University of Chicago in February 2010.
Join us for the season’s first screening on the preceding evening:
Hollis Frampton: Solariumagelani
Thursday, Oct 15, 6.00 pm
Gene Siskel Film Center