The New Media Workshop
proudly presents:
Bruce Jenkins, Dean of Undergraduate Students at the Art Institute of Chicago, and former Cavell Curator of the Harvard Film Archive.
Professor Jenkins will discuss the works of Hollis Frampton in relationship to digital culture.
Date: Monday, February 25, 2008
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Cobb 310
The paper is available for pick-up in hard copy outside of Cobb 310 in the New Media Workshop mailbox, or in the lounge of the Cochrane-Woods Arts Center.
Refreshments will be served.
Persons with a disability, who believe they may need assistance, please email Lisa Zaher in advance at lmz@uchicago.edu.
Please join the New Media Workshop for a discussion of some works by the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, led by
Michelle Menzies, Ph.D. Student in the Department of English Language & Literature.
Date: Friday, February 15, 2008
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Place: Cobb 310
For this meeting we will be reading the following texts:
Jacques Rancière, “Distribution of the Sensible,” in The Politics of Aesthetics (London: Continuum, 2006): 9-45;
Jacques Rancière, The Future of the Image, (London: Verso, 2007): 1-31.
Optional: Excerpts from Artforum (March, 2007), featuring an interview with Jacques Rancière.
Refreshments will be served.
Persons in need of assistance, please contact Lisa Zaher in advance.
Readings for the New Media Workshop’s discussion of Beowulf, the IMAX 3D Experience.
Showtime: 5:00pm
Running Time: 114 minutes
For our discussion, please familiarize yourself with the Production Notes on the official Beowulf website. (Particularly pages 6-24).
In keeping with the workshop’s goal to consider the innovation and obsolescence of all media historically, please familiarize yourself with a short essay by Rudolf Arnheim, “The Complete Film” (1933).
Arnheim, “The Complete Film,” 1933
For directions, please visit this link.
*Please give yourself about 15 extra minutes to find parking and walk to the IMAX entrance.
Interested in viewing Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, the IMAX 3d Experience, at the Navy Pier Imax? The New Media Workshop will be meeting to discuss the film and issues related to digital film, 3d technology, and photorealism on Sunday, December 9th. For more information, please contact Lisa Zaher.
Trailer and official website.
Some reviews:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beowulf/
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/11/what-beowulf-me.html
http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2007/11/beowulf-reviews.html
http://unlocked-wordhoard.blogspot.com/2007/11/beowulf-review-round-up.html
(The last link contains a list of reviews by Medievalists).
KRISTINE NIELSEN, PH.D. CANDIDATE, ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,
will present her paper “Do ut des: the Value of the Thaelmann Monument,” a chapter from her dissertation in progress, “Secular Iconoclasm: East Berlin’s Political Monuments from the Late SED Regime to Postunified Berlin.”
Date: Monday, November 12, 2007
Time: 6:00-8:00pm
Place: Cobb 310
If you plan to attend, please email Lisa Zaher (lmz@uchicago.edu) for a copy of the paper.
—Joint event with the Contemporary Art Workshop.—
Persons with disabilities who believe they may need assistance, please contact Lisa Zaher in advance.
The New Media Workshop in conjunction with the American Cultures Workshop, present:
LYNN SPIGEL, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF RADIO, TELEVISION AND FILM AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Professor Spigel will be discussing her paper “Warhol TV: Everyday Television for Subaltern Publics,” a chapter from her forthcoming publication TV by Design: Modern art and the rise of network television, (University of Chicago Press, November 2008).
Click here to download the paper.
This meeting will take place on Wednesday from 4:30 – 6:00PM, in Rosenwald 405.