Archive
PAST EVENTS:
FALL TERM 2008
Oct 3: INTRODUCTORY MEETING, All are welcome! plus: JAMES HODGE, Ph.D. Candidate in the department of English Language & Literature, presents “Algorithms of History.”
Oct 17: KRIS COHEN, Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Art History, discusses ” Statement in the Form of a Question (Search Engines and Self-Encounter),” a chapter from his dissertation in progress (co-sponsored by The Contemporary Art Workshop).
Nov 7: PETER SHULTZ, Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Music, discusses “Music and Narrative Death in Video Games: Grief and Routine in Final Fantasy VII,” a chapter from his dissertation in progress.
Nov 14: ANDREW RAFFO DEWAR, Assistant Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Alabama presents “Sonic Arts Union: Aesthetics of an American ‘Tinkering’ Technoculture.”
Dec 5: PLAY, GAMES, NEW MEDIA: Matt Hauske (Cinema & Media Studies), Peter Shultz (Music), & James Hodge (English) lead a discussion of theories of play from Caillois to Galloway, focusing on Giorgio Agamben’s essay, “In Playland” and the relation between play and history. In addition, we will play Wii and take a brief tour of the history of tennis in media art. Click here for more details.
WINTER TERM 2009
Jan 23: JOYCE CHENG, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History presents Of Dolls, Puppets, Gods: Walter Benjamin and the Mediation of Playthings. Co-sponsored by the Mass Culture Workshop.
Jan 29: STEVEN SHAVIRO, DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University presents Post-Cinematic Affect. Co-sponsored by the Affective Publics Reading Group.
Jan 30: CHRIS BENCH, Ph.D. Student, Department of English Language and Literature presents Innate Constraints on Literary Realism as Evidenced by Eye-Tracking Research.
Feb 13: JAMES CHANDLER, Director of The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Department of English Language and Literature, and Committee on Cinema and Media Studies presents “The Affection-Image and the Movement-Image”
Feb 26 & 27: Filmmaker & artist ZOE BELOFF
March 13: SCOTT RICHMOND, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on Cinema & Media Studies presents “What Does the Cinema Afford? Or, an Ecological Approach to Cinematic Kinesthesis.”
SPRING TERM 2009
April 3: LAURA MULVEY, Professor of the History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London (Co-sponsored by the Mass Culture Workshop).
April 24: DORON GALILI, Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on Cinema & Media Studies, “‘A Prolonged Optic Nerve’: Cultural and Technological Ideas of Television in the Nineteenth Century”
May 8: Artist EDUARDO KAC, Professor of Art & Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in conversation with WJT MITCHELL, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in English & Art History at the University of Chicago.
May 15: NEW MEDIA & MATERIALITY: Andrew Johnston (CMS) & Jim Hodge (English) lead a discussion of three texts that explore the forensic & formal materiality of new media. Texts to be discussed include ch. 1 of Matthew Kirschenbaum’s Mechanisms, John Cayley’s essay “The Code is Not the Text (unless it is the Text)” and ch. 1 & the afterword from Racing the Beam by Nick Montfort & Ian Bogost.
May 21 & 22: new media artist BARBARA LATTANZI
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FALL TERM 2007
OCTOBER 15: INTRODUCTORY SESSION: What’s New(er) in New Media
OCTOBER 31: LYNN SPIGEL, Professor and Chair of the Department of Radio, Television and Film at Northwestern University.
NOVEMBER 12: KRISTINE NIELSEN, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History.
DECEMBER 3: SHANNON HERBERT, Ph.D. Candidate in English Language & Literature.
DECEMBER 9: Beowulf, the IMAX Experience, followed by a discussion on Digital Film, and “Photorealism.”
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WINTER TERM 2008
JANUARY 28: KRIS COHEN, Ph.D. Student, Art History, discusses his dissertation in progress.
FEBRUARY 15: Group Discussion of the work of Jacques Rancière, led by MICHELLE MENZIES, Ph.D. Student in the Department of English Language and Literature.
FEBRUARY 25: BRUCE JENKINS, Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and former Cavell Curator of the Harvard Film Archive, discusses Hollis Frampton.
MARCH 10: ADAM HART, Ph.D. Student in the Committee for Cinema and Media Studies.
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SPRING TERM
APRIL 4: CHRISTA ROBBINS, Ph. D. Candidate in the Department of Art History, discusses a chapter from her dissertation in progress.
APRIL 18: RANCIERE DISCUSSION – continued. Reading: The Future of the Image.
APRIL 26: CHRISTOPHE WALL-ROMANA (University of Minnesota), “Re-Viewing Photogenie.” (Note: In conjunction with “Jean Epstein’s Interdisciplinary Cinema,” a symposium hosted by the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies.)
MAY 2: ZACH CAHILL, MFA ‘07, University of Chicago presents recent video work.
MAY 12: ARNIKA FUHRMANN, Ph.D. Student in Art History. (Joint meeting with the Contemporary Art Workshop).
MAY 19: ALAN LIU, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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CO-SPONSORED SPRING EVENTS:
APRIL 5: ALTERNATIVE NONFICTION: ESSAY FILMS, HYBRIDS, AND EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARIES, University of Chicago’s Committee on Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference.
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