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Internet Salon (ISSN 1466-4615)
http://www.film-philosophy.com
August 2000
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From: 'Reinout van der Horst' <[log in to unmask]>
SCREEN-BASED ART.
BALKEMA, Annette W. and Henk SLAGER (Eds.)
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA, 2000 185 pp.
Hb: 90-420-0801-6 Hfl. 100 / US$
Pb: 90-420-0811-3 Hfl. 37 / US$
Series:
Lier & Boog 15
In the 21st century, the screen - the Internet screen, the television
screen, the video screen and all sorts of combinations thereof - will be
booming in our visual and infotechno culture. Screen-based art, already a
prominent and topical part of visual culture in the 1990s, will expand even
more. In this volume, digital art - the new media - as well as its
connectedness to cinema will be the subject of investigation. The starting
point is a two-day symposium organized by the Netherlands Media Art
Institute Montevideo/TBA, in collaboration with the L&B (Lier en Boog)
series and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Issues which
emerged during the course of investigation deal with questions such as: How
could screen-based art be distinguished from other art forms? Could
screen-based art theoretically be understood in one definite model or
should one search for various possibilities and/or models? Could
screen-based art be canonized? What are the physical and theoretical forms
of representation for screen-based art? What are the idiosyncratic concepts
geared towards screen-based art? This volume includes various arguments,
positions, and statements by artists, curators, philosophers, and theorists.
The participants are Marie-Luise Angerer, Annette W. Balkema, René Beekman,
Raymond Bellour, Peter Bogers, Joost Bolten, Noël Carroll, Sean Cubitt,
Călin Dan, Chris Dercon, Honoré d'O, Anne-Marie Duquet, Ken Feingold,
Ursula Frohne, hARTware curators, Heiner Holtappels, Aernout Mik, Patricia
Pisters, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Sloterdijk, Ed S. Tan,
Barbara Visser and Siegfried Zielinski.
Contents:
Annette W. BALKEMA and Henk SLAGER: Prologue
Marie-Luise ANGERER: New Technology and its Subject
Annette W. BALKEMA: Desire for the Screen
René BEEKMAN: Composing Images
Raymond BELLOUR: Challenging Cinema
Peter BOGERS: Limitations and Imperfections
Joost BOLTEN: The Medium in the Middle
Noël CARROLL: Forget the Medium!
Sean CUBITT: The Chronoscope
Călin DAN: Growing Old in New Media
Honoré d'O: Theatrical Video
Anne-Marie DUQUET: Scenography of the Image
Ken FEINGOLD: Contextual Consciousness
Symposium Filmic Images
Chris DERCON: Still/A Novel
Patricia PISTERS: Molecular Processes of Becoming
Ed TAN: The Filmic Image as an Icon of Cultural Memory
Ursula FROHNE: Illusions of Experience
hARTware curators: Observations on Techno-Art
Heiner HOLTAPPELS: Topicalism and the Design of Time
Aernout MIK: Staged Situations
Nicolaus SCHAFHAUSEN: Communication Torture
Jeffrey SHAW: Media Art and Interactive Cinema
Peter SLOTERDIJK: Neolithic Intelligence
Barbara VISSER: Blurring Boundaries
Siegfried ZIELINSKI: Time Machines
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Subject: *Post Script* Realist Horror Cinema (special issue) 5/1/01
Reply to: Steven Schneider <[log in to unmask]>
CALL FOR PAPERS
(Please distribute)
Although the humanness of monsters (and the monstrousness of humans) has
always been a theme in horror films and fiction, it was only after the
simultaneous appearance of *Psycho* and *Peeping Tom* in 1960 that the
cinematic representation of *human monsters* became of central interest to
screenwriters, directors, and - - most importantly - - to the viewing
public. Even a number of recent horror-thriller-suspense films ostensibly
concerned with supernatural entities and/or occurrences (e.g., *Hideaway*
[1995], *The Frighteners* [1996], *Fallen* [1998], *In Dreams* [1999]) have
managed to concoct more or less plausible ways of bringing psychotics, mass
murderers, and serial killers into the mix.
*Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities* is calling for
contributors to a special issue on 'Realist Horror Cinema.' Possible topics
include, but are not limited to: sociohistorical, theoretical, or cinematic
accounts of the 'evolution' of this highly controversial subgenre; the
aesthetics of violence in realist horror cinema; the creative merging of
natural and supernatural elements in realist horror films; spectator
analyses dealing with (e.g.) the extent to which the blurring of reality
and fiction in these films reinforces un/justified feelings of paranoia in
audiences; and the 'bleeding' of realist horror cinema into other mediums
(e.g., television, theatre), and other filmic genres (e.g., action, drama).
While the primary focus of this issue will be American realist horror
films, papers on applicable international films will be considered as well.
Also encouraged are substantive interviews with realist horror filmmakers,
and book reviews up to 1000 words in length.
Submissions should be previously unpublished, no longer than 24 pages,
double-spaced, and including documentation (MLA preferred). Submit three
hard copies of your manuscript, plus one disk copy (in WORD format).
Include a SASE for return of manuscripts and disk, should that be necessary.
*** DEADLINE: MAY 1, 2001 ***
Please address all inquiries, and send all submissions, to:
Steven Jay Schneider
Guest Editor, *Post Script* 'Realist Horror' Issue 69 5th Avenue, Apt. 7J
New York, N.Y. 10003
Tel: (212) 242-0956 // Fax: (646) 638-3438 E-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
Homepage: <http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sschneid/>
or to *Post Script*'s General Editor:
Professor Gerald Duchovnay
General Editor, *Post Script*
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University
Commerce, TX 75429-3011
E-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
*Post Script* can be found on the web at:
<http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/coas/litlang/PostScript.html>
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CFP: TELEVISION, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
(March 7-10, 2001 in Albuquerque.)
The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Association are holding a series of panels at the next meeting of these
regional groups, March 7-10, 2001 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
conference will be centered at the Sheraton Oldtown Hotel--a beautiful,
newly-renovated facility, that is within walking distance of Albuquerque's
historic 'Old Town' district. This is the SW/TX PCA/ACA's third year to
meet in Albuquerque. For us, it is a perfect venue that offers the sights,
sounds, tastes, and museums of the Southwest.
Conference information is available on the organization's web site and will
be continuously updated:
http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca [note the three w's]
Papers are requested on television and its impact on American society and
culture. The field described is a broad one, but a couple of approaches are
suggested--views of television from the outside and the inside. The first
covers such issues as television and pulbic expectations, hopes, and
perceptions of, and responses to, programing. the second offers an
opportunity for analysis of media agendas, an opportunity to evaluate the
forces that have pushed television in one direction or another throughout
its history.
Likely topics:
The Television as 'the Tube of Plenty'
The Television as Wasteland
Who's Watching, Big Brother or a Voyeuristic Society? Television and
Gender/Racial Stereotypes Television and Gender/Racial Bending
Televangelism
Cops and Robbers
Cowboys and Indians
Talk Shows
Wrestlemania
Papers treating any aspect of the topic are welcome. Please submit
150-word abstract by 1 November, 2000.
Please respond to the Area Chair.
Dr. Kregg M. Fehr
Humanities Department
Lubbock Christian University
5601 19th Street
Lubbock, TX 79407
(806) 796-8800 ext. 310
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From: 'European Cinema Research Forum'
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Preliminary Notice
Inaugural International Conference
of the
European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF)
Foreign Film?
European Cinema Beyond its Frontiers
will be held
January 27-28th 2001 (Sat/Sun)
University of Wales, Bangor
Papers are invited on topics such as: Film and European National/Regional
identity; language and culture in European cinemas; European Directors in
Hollywood; Cinema and Globalization: European Dimensions; Contemporary
European Film: film style and form in recent European cinema; 'art
cinema'/'popular cinema': European cinema as 'non-foreign' cinema;
'minority' cinemas in European nations . . .
Numbers will be limited in order to ensure time for debate and discussion.
Interested parties are urged to contact the ECRF asap.
Further details on this inaugural conference can be obtained from:
Director, Development Centre for the Creative and Performing Arts
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School of Modern Languages
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University of Wales, Bangor, LL57 2DG
Or from the ECRF at [log in to unmask]
Hysbysiad Ymlaen Llaw
Cynhadledd Agoriadol Ryngwladol
y
Fforwm Ymchwil i'r Sinema Ewropeaidd
Cynhelir
Ffilmiau Tramor?
Y Sinema Ewropeaidd
y Tu Hwnt i'w Ffiniau
ar 27-28 Ionawr 2001 (Sadwrn/Sul)
ym Mhrifysgol Cymru, Bangor
Gwahoddir papurau ar bynciau megis: Ffilm a Hunaniaeth Ewropeaidd/
Cenedlaethol/Rhanbarthol yn y Byd Modern; iaith a diwylliant mewn Sinem’u
Ewropeaidd; Cyfarwyddwyr Ewropeaidd yn Hollywood; Sinema a Byd-gyfannu;
Dimensiynau Ewropeaidd; Ffilmiau Ewropeaidd Cyfoes; Arddull a Ffurf mewn
ffilmiau Ewropeaidd diweddar; 'sinema gelfyddydol'/'sinema boblogaidd':
ffilmiau Ewropeaidd fel sinema 'anhramoraidd'; sinem’u 'lleiafrifol' yng
nghenhedloedd Ewrop ...
Bydd niferoedd yn gyfyngedig, er sicrhau amser ar gyfer dadlau a thrafod.
Gofynnir i'r rhai sydd ’ diddordeb gysylltu ’'r Fforwm Ymchwil i'r Sinema
Ewropeaidd cyn gynted ag y bo modd.
Ceir manylion pellach o swyddfa'r Fforwm Ymchwil i'r Sinema Ewropeaidd:
Canolfan Datblygu'r Celfyddydau Creadigol a Pherfformiadol Prifysgol Cymru
Bangor, LL57 2DG
Manylion gan:
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[log in to unmask] Cyfarwyddwr
Canolfan Datblygu'r Celfyddydau Creadigol a Pherfformiadol Prifysgol Cymru
7 Awst 2000
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Reply to: 'European Cinema Research Forum'
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THE EUROPEAN CINEMA RESEARCH FORUM (ECRF)
The 'European Cinema Research Forum' [ECRF] invites expressions of interest
in its development as a worldwide research forum for the discussion of
European Cinema.
The forum aims to encourage discussion of European Cinemas in all their
guises, of the culture, history and textual study of cinema in Europe, and
of the practice of film-making, and of the influence and dissemination of
European cinema (directors, actors and so on) beyond Europe.
Likewise, the forum recognises the changing nature of European culture, as
well as its enduring elements, and has interests in areas such as language,
regional and national cultures/histories, diasporas, new film-makers in
Europe, Europe and Hollywood, Europe and new technologies of film-making,
the interdisciplinary study of film in Europe (eg: literature and the
cinema, philosophy/aesthetics and the cinema in Europe, history and the
cinema, broadcast and cinema) and so on. And encourages development of
research contacts.
Interested parties are asked simply to email their particular interest
areas to the address below, with a view to developing the worldwide forum
as a contact base for those with interests in European Cinema Research.
The forum arises out of international discussions between academics working
in the field, and through concerted discussions between interested parties
in such significant European fora as the EU Commission.
The European Cinema Research Forum
Email Survey at:
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CALL FOR PAPERS
PANEL PROPOSAL
21ST CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES CONFERENCE
UC DAVIS, 3/29-4/1/2001
THE CENTURY OF DELEUZE -- AND OTHERS
At the outset of the new century, it is appropriate to ask if, after
Foucault's suggestion, the twentieth century has or will become Deleuzian.
It is true that there has recently been a proliferation of scholarship on
Deleuze, though not of the same quantity as with certain other French
philosophers and theorists. Partly because Deleuze scholarship has not
tended to such extensive proliferation, attempts to advance his work over
that of 'competitors' have not been as strong as in previous cases. This
proposal invites efforts to find points of commonality, following Deleuze's
own example, between his work and that of others: papers that advance
projects suggested by Deleuze through linkages with other theorists, that
develop theoretical positions through these linkages. The twentieth century
may perhaps have been Deleuzian if Deleuze's work leads to such new points,
from which twenty-first century criticism may depart.
Send 100-word abstracts by September 7, 2000, to:
Hassan Melehy
Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages
U-57
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1057
USA
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Electronic submissions preferred, as either e-mail text or RTF attachments.
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From:
'Samuel Lelievre' <[log in to unmask]>
This is a Call For Papers (CFP) for an issue of the French journal
_Cinemaction_ about the African Cinemas since 1980 and the end of 70s. We
would still be interested with articles about African Cinemas in Lusophone
areas and in Middle Africa (Afrique centrale). Find below a description of
this project. Don’t hesitate to contact his coordinator and to
forward this message to your colleagues.
_ Cinemas d Afrique noire en transit _, a Cinemaction’s issue about
recent African Cinemas
In about twenty years, Cinemas of Black Africa have known, on one hand an
assertion and a consolidation of their practices or their aesthetics,
and on the other hand an evolution of their ideologies and socioeconomic
contexts in which they evolved. Our Cinemaction's issue would like to
realize this double movement, not only between the cinemas of Africa and
their contexts, but also between Europe and Africa. It seems to us
important to analyze this period of transition in the history of Cinemas of
Black Africa, between an institutional independence requiring a period
of decolonization and a democratic independence corresponding to the
construction of a nation.
But it is also a question of describing film-makers' individual situation
which, although rooted in a country, a region or a culture, learnt to be
nomads in transit in the world and on the African continent, to work or to
make known their work. Our time is not any more for only speeches on the
decolonization of Africa, but for analysis of the reality of national
independences, such as it can be experimented and be represented
rather clearly with cinemas and film-makers of this continent. In this
perspective, we are in search of papers which would develop this subject of
an historical, ideological or practical transition in Cinemas
made in Black Africa since 1980, notably according to one of three
following points:
Political evolution of African Cinemas since 1980; African Cinemas since
1980 and the question of the development; African Cinemas since 1980 and
culture.
This project remains obviously opened to any text which would treat a
transition in the history of the cinemas of Africa or the nomadism of the
African film-makers. Thank you to send us tour your propositions (abstracts
and titles) in best delays.
Please contact Dr. Samuel Lelievre for any further informations about this
CFP to the following addresses:
9, rue André Trasbot, 35000 Rennes – France tel : (33) (0)2 99 67 05 43
courriel : [log in to unmask]
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The University of Manchester in conjunction with The University of Luton Press
Presents
The University of Manchester
International Broadcasting Symposium 2000
Date: Thursday 26th October 2000
Venue: The University of Luton, Putteridge Bury
Research: WHO NEEDS IT?
The first International Broadcasting Symposium of the new Millennium
confronts the significance of media research both for broadcasters and
academics. In the context of accelerated technological innovations,
connections and convergences between previously discrete elements of the
media industries (television, telecommunications, computers, the internet,
movies, music, mobile phones) are challenging the established mass media.
Moreover, industry experts are currently unable to speak with confidence
about the cultural impact of the digital revolution.
Being hosted for the first time by the University of Luton Press (formerly
John Libbey Media), the University of Manchester International Broadcasting
Symposium 2000 will feature leading speakers from the media industries and
academic research. It will offer an opportunity for broadcasters and
academics to find out about each otherís research and explore how greater
research co-operation must take place on the changing shape of media
production, distribution and consumption.
This one day event will be held on Thursday 26th October 2000 at the
country mansion campus of the University of Luton at Putteridge Bury which
is equidistant (3 miles) from Luton railway station, Luton airport and the
M1.
Guidelines for the Submission of Papers
Format
Abstracts should be typed on ONE SIDE of A4 and should include the following:
Title of paper
Author(s)
Name of presenter, affiliation and postal address Abstract: 150 words
Audio-visual requirements
Final papers should not be more than 3,000 words in length.
Papers
Presentations must be made in person. We cannot accept a paper which will
not be personally presented. On submission you will receive an application
form giving full costs of attending the Symposium.
The full paper should reach us by 1st September. Papers should be of not
more than 3,000 words in length. They should be typed on A4 double line
spaced (single for quotations). They should include the title of the paper,
the authorís affiliation and the postal address. Titles of books or
programmes referred to should be italicised. You should send a paper copy,
accompanied by a copy on disc in ASCII or Word.
Acceptance/Rejection
You will be notified in writing whether or not your paper has been accepted
for presentation.
Presentation
Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes each (15 minutes, plus 15
minutes for questions). Presenters are asked Not to read their papers, but
to present their main findings.
Please state any audio-visual requirements when submitting the finished paper.
Send abstracts and papers to:
Dr Sue Ralph, Director
School of Education
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
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Deadlines
Abstract 1st July 2000
Papers 1st September 2000
Selected papers will be published in the conference book financed by
Channel 4 and published by the University of Luton Press.
Sarah Shrive
Production Co-ordinator
University of Luton Press
University of Luton
75 Castle Street
Luton
Bedfordshire LU1 3AJ
United Kingdom
Direct Tel: +44 (0)1582 743412
Direct Fax: +44 (0)1582 743298
Mobile: 0802 461 404
Email:
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WEBSITES TO VISIT
University of Luton Press website: http://www.ulp.org.uk British Journalism
Review website: http://www.bjr.org.uk Convergence website:
http://www.luton.ac.uk/convergence
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Subject: Contemporary TV Serials (essays) 9/30
Reply to: Michael Hammond <[log in to unmask]>
Previously On: Approaches to the Contemporary Television Serial
The increasing popularity and prevalence within television schedules of
serials such as 'ER', 'Ally McBeal', 'Cold Feet', 'Buffy the Vampire
Slayer' and 'The Sopranos' poses a number of fascinating questions. To what
extent do these serials constitute a definable television genre? When and
why did they emerge? What is their place within an increasingly complex
television landscape? What can they tell us about relations between Britain
and the United States and constructions of 'transnational' television? Many
of these serials achieve both popular success and critical praise. Clearly
they can tell us much about contemporary modes of reception and
articulations of 'quality' television.
This book will set out to find answers to these questions and others via
analysis of a number of these serials. We invite contributions on recent
drama serials screened on British terrestrial television and we encourage
diversity both in terms of texts studied and methodology. As such the book
will give a very timely account of these highly prominent programmes and
their position within a changing television industry while simultaneously
providing examples of the various approaches and methodologies of an
increasingly hybrid television studies discipline.
In the first instance please send proposals of 300-500 words by September
30 2000 to:
Dr. Lucy Mazdon
School of Modern Languages
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
S017 1BJ
00 44 023 80 595435
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Michael Hammond
Department of English
University of Southampton
Highfield Southampton
SO17 1BJ
00 44 023 80 596708
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Reply to: Sally-Ann Hubbard <[log in to unmask]>
The Moving Image:
Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists
The Association of Moving Image Archivists Board has approved the creation
of a new professional journal, which will represent the interests of AMIA,
while also providing an open forum for archivists, librarians, technical
specialists, scholars and academics interested in our rapidly expanding
field. While the AMIA Newsletter will continue to serve as a news forum,
Moving Images will reflect in in-depth articles the diverse interests of
the membership, including its special interest groups for news and
documentary collections, amateur film, regional archives, and academic
users. The Journal with be published by the University of Minnesota Press.
The Journal will address issues involving all moving image materials,
including historic and contemporary film, television, and video, new and
emerging digital technologies, as well as paper and three-dimensional
collections documenting the history of moving image media.
The journal will offer a compelling mix of content, including:
* Traditional scholarly papers and historical essays, especially those
utilizing research in film archival collections * In-depth examinations of
specific preservation and restoration
projects
* Detailed profiles of moving image collections or archives
* Interviews with leading figures in the community
* Behind the scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve and
restore our moving image heritage
* Theoretical and visionary articles and columns on the future of the
field
* Historical articles aout the development of archives, museums and
the field of film/media studies
* Technical and practical articles on research and development in the
field
* Essays on the role of moving image archives and collections in the
writing of history
* Reviews of books and films directly related to the archival field.
* Illustrations, still reproductions, frame enlargements, and
before-and-after image comparisons, many of which are readily available in
the collections of AMIA members.
An editorial team and editorial board has been assembled. Publication of
the first issue is slated for Spring 2001. This will be a refereed journal,
maintaining the highest academic standards of writing. Anyone, whether a
member of the Association or not, is welcome to submit manuscripts and/or
proposals. Inquiries for information and manuscript submissions should be
sent to the AMIA Office, c/o Publications Committee Chair, Sally-Ann
Hubbard ([log in to unmask]).
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From: 'Wilkerson, Richard' <[log in to unmask]> Subject: The Virtual
Reality Survey :
The Virtual Reality Survey :
DreamGate survey of the changing meaning of 'virtual'
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INTRODUCTION
What is virtual and virtual reality? Is it a computer mediated environment
that simulates landscapes we in which we feel immersed, or a process by
which humankind has always been progressing in which we are able to extend
our influence and confluence beyond our normal range and scope? Are virtual
relationships unreal, or the next evolutionary step in higher
consciousness? How has the Internet influenced the concept of the virtual?
The authors of this survey have been involved in studying various forms of
virtual reality and virtual interaction. We have noticed the use of the
word 'virtual' is in flux, and many groups use the term in different ways.
This survey is designed to bring out the uses and of the word, as well as
to gather in the various understanding of the concept in the early 21st
Century.
INSTRUCTIONS
If you would like to be notified when the survey results are published,
please enter your e-mail address here. All **** e-mail addresses will be
kept confidential and will not be used for any other purpose than
notifications about the Virtual Reality survey.
send to [log in to unmask]
You are also invited to join the Virtual Community Mailing List (gna-vc)
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gna-vc.html
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The DreamGate Virtual Reality Survey:
Please give your understanding or definition to any or all of the following
words and concepts:
Virtual :
Virtual reality :
Virtual reality (VR) :
Virtual realism :
Virtuality :
Virtualization of the individual :
Virtualization of culture :
Virtualization of living/working space :
Virtual community :
Virtual workplace :
Virtual organization (Company) :
Virtual relationship :
Virtual space :
Virtual sex :
Virtual vs actual :
Virtual vs realized :
Virtual vs non-virtual :
Virtual Space vs Cyberspace :
Virtual presence (and its responsibilities and status) :
Other comments on the current definition and uses of the word 'virtual' :
Optional
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Name:
Address/country/zip:
Phone/fax:
**** e-mail (must enter if you want notification about the results) Sex:
Age:
Occupation:
Political Party:
Your interest in Virtual Reality:
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This survey is sponsored by:
DreamGate.com
http://www.dreamgate.com
Richard Wilkerson
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4644 Geary Blvd PMB 171
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Phone: (415) 221-3239
Fax: (425) 984-9630
Permission granted to distribute this survey both online and offine. 2000
DreamGate.com
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British Academy Email Bulletin
If you wish to receive electronic notices of forthcoming British Academy
meetings and lectures, deadlines for Academy research grants, and other
British Academy news please regsister for British Academy Email Bulletin.
All you need to do is send a message to [log in to unmask] stating the
e-mail address to which you would like the Bulletin to be sent.
The British Academy is the national academy for the humanities and social
sciences. It is an independent learned society composed of Fellows elected
in recognition of their distinction as scholars in some branch of the
humanities and social sciences. To find out more about the British Academy,
visit our website: http://www.britac.ac.uk or call 020 7969 5263.'
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Subject: International Institute for Digital and Electronic Arts
[log in to unmask] (Nick Land & Daniel Haines) sent the
following Spoon-Announcement:
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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL AND ELECTRONIC ARTS -
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W
e're currently putting together a list of people who might want to be
involved with and contribute to coming events at the International
Institute for Digital and Electronic Arts. Based in Birmingham, this
gallery and event space will open in Spring 2001 as a centre for exhibiting
digital arts (visual, musical, performance-based) and also for criticism,
theory, and debate.
It will be a venue for papers, events, conferences, etc. We are also
looking into the possibilities of publishing critical works relevant to
digital arts. The Institute, which will have trust-status and sponsorship,
will be looking to establish itself as a prestigious and important space
with an international reputation for cutting-edge exhibitions and
innovative theoretical debate.
If you're interested in getting involved, please reply to this email with
contact details and a brief summary of what your work involves. We'll get
in touch with more information as and when it is available.
Many thanks,
Nick Land & Daniel Haines
International Institute for Digital and Electronic Arts Office: 19 Newhall
Street, Birmingham, UK.
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference
University of Manchester
11-13 July 2001
Philosophy and the Emotions
Richard Wollheim
Peter Goldie
Paul Griffiths
Susan James
Karen Jones
Mike Martin
Al Mele
Hanna Pickard
David Velleman
The conference aspires to act as a forum for the presentation of key papers
by leading figures in the analysis of emotions, and for the commencement of
a dialogue on this topic among advanced researchers from different
philosophical disciplines, including the philosophy of
action
art
cognition
meaning
mind
value
Papers of 3,000 words may be submitted in ‘blind-review’ format by 15-12-00 to
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Anthony Hatzimoysis
Centre for Philosophy
Department of Government
University of Manchester
M13 9PL. UK
http://les.man.ac.uk/philosophy
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Subject: Cinema & Medicine (no deadline; collection)
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Reply to: 'Film Medicine' <[log in to unmask]>
Chapters and appropriate chapter suggestions are sought for:
'Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema'
'Signs of Life: Medicine and the Cinema' will consider how medicine, the
medical profession and medical science have been presented in the cinema.
The book will offer an historical, cultural and textual study of the filmic
representation of medicine and will appeal to both the film studies and a
wider film readership.
This book development project already includes a foreword by a major name
in medicine and the medical humanities and is receiving extremely
enthusiastic responses internationally. We intend for this to be an
exceptional book.
The book is divided into three sections:
Section One: The Flicker of Life: Medicine Enters the Cinema Section Two:
Vital Signs: Medical Interventions and the Cinema Section Three: Dying on
film: medical cinema and the end of life
Indicative Chapter Areas (Section One) could include:
[1] Birth of cinema: birth in the cinema [2] Ability and disability:
depictions of 'normalcy' throughout film history
[3] Idealisation of youth and the body in the medical narratives of the cinema
[4] Puberty and sexual awakening in classical and post-classical cinema
[5] Gendered and sexualised medicine: the role of medicine in gender and
sexual definitions in film (eg: medicine and masculinity, medicine and the
feminine . . .)
[6] The role of film in advancement of medical science: documentaries and
dramas of medicine and the medical professions.
Indicative Chapter Areas (Section Two) could include:
[1] Disease and the cinema
[2] Film injuries: hurting and healing on film [3] Discoveries: medical
science and cinema [4] Miracles, recuperations and cures
[5] Good health: general practitioners, hospitals and the role of the
patient in the cinema
[6] Film genre and medical intervention
Indicative chapter areas (Section Three) could include
[1] The medical rituals of dying: funerals, wakes and grieving [2]
Violence, killing and cinematic medicine [3] Corpses and forensics:
medicine meets the dead [4] Spirit and the metaphysical: film, medicine and
transcending the body
[5] War films and the role of medic
[6] Film genre and the medical depiction of the dead and dying
Questions to be debated could include:
'How is the human form made to appear through medicine in film?'
'What contribution do cultural rituals make to filmic representation of
medicine?'
'How do gender, race and sexuality inform filmic constructions of medical
science and medical practitioners?'
'Where are the parameters of the scientific and the personal drawn in 'film
medicine'?'
'In whose interests are these 'signs of life' deployed?'
'What is the relation between history and the filmic depiction of medicine?'
'How does cinema define the normality and the integrity of our bodies
medically?'
'How does cinema deal with being born, living, ageing and dying and what
role is played by medicine in this filmic narrative?'
Reply to: The General Editors, University of Wales: 'Medicine and Film
project': [log in to unmask]
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Subject: CFP: CineAction #54 Available on Video
From: Susan Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
The issue's guiding premise is to give writers the opportunity of drawing
readers' attention to films of value which have had little circulation and
might therefore have been overlooked, especially films that either went
direct to video or DVD, or received only a very brief or limited release.
They can be films made anywhere in the world, by world-renowned directors
such as Kiarostami and Hou Hsiao-hsien, to barely known American
independents or even mainstream Hollywood if the work was scarcely
released. Obviously, however, the film discussed must be available for rent
or purchase - the idea is to encourage readers to explore areas they might
not have ventured into or even know about, thereby enabling writers to
share the excitement of discovery. If the film is available only from some
specialized venue (for example, two of Hou's films are currently available
only from mail order from Cheng and Tsui in Boston), please specify, to
spare readers the frustration of searching fruitlessly through stores. You
should also specify whether the film is available on video, DVD, or both,
and whether it is in the correct format. Articles can be short or up to
5000 words; you might even wish to write briefly on several deserving films.
Deadline: November 15, 2000.
Any questions, please address them to the issue's editor, Robin Wood at
(416) 964-3534, or write to him at CineAction
40 Alexander St. #705
Toronto ON
Canada M4Y 1B5
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From: Robert Inglis <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Looking for a
Collaborator/s
Hi:
I'll try to keep this brief, and hopefully pique the interest of any
available parties who can then reply to me personally at my email address
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I'm currently looking for one or perhaps two collaborators who'd be
interested in expanding the theses of two papers I've been sketching out:
In the first paper, I've come up with a very useful model that attempts to
reconcile all films into a holistic system. From what's been referred to as
the 'two avante-garde's' - experimental filmmaking and 'arty' narrative
films - to the classical Hollywood tradition, I'm essentially trying to
come up with a new approach to thinking about Film. This may sound a tad
grandiose, and my ambitions may be exceeding me, but I'd like to discuss my
ideas with anyone interested and see where we go from there.
In the second paper, I'd like to delineate what I see as a strong
relationship between viewership of television advertising and teen drug
use, specifically that of hallucinogenic and psychotropic substances.
I'm aiming at writing these papers at a reading level accessible by the
intelligent lay-person who has a fair understanding of electronic media,
ideally someone whose familiar with McLuhan or Barthes; or an undergraduate
student.
If any or all of the above grabs your attention and you've some time to
devote to working on a paper or two, please contact me.
Thanks,
Robert Inglis
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From:
'Dr. Pat Steed' <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Papers:
Netropolis: Popular Culture in Cyberspace I am putting together a
multiple-panel discussion on cyberculture for the Southwest Texas Popular
Culture/American Culture Association in Albuquerque, NM, March 7-10, 2001.
Accommodation: Sheraton Old Town, Albuquerque, NM. Local arrangements by
Peter C. Rollins, Program Chair
Topics include (but are certainly not limited to) the following in each of
the five panels listed below:
Netropolis I: Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Language (Panel I) Possible topics
for this panel
1. Cyberspace as Text (deconstructionism, structuralism, etc.) 2.
Cyberspace as Sign (semiotic approach) 3. Application of Kenneth Burke's
identification theory to online communities or computer-mediated
communication (CMC). 4. Digital culture and the construction of identity in
webspace (online
ethos)
5. To what extent has Internet technology affected/enhanced language
acquisition/learning? (Native American languages, Spanish, Russian, etc)
6. IRC and discourse community theory
7. Application of Aristotle's theory of 'delivery' or 'style' in web site
design.
Netropolis II: Digital Diversity (Panel II) Possible topics for this panel
1. Internet use in developing countries
2. Indigenous people's use and application of Internet technologies (Native
America, Aboriginal, etc.) 3. Virtual reflections of Native American online
tribal identity
4. To what exent has digital culture affected (or will affect) the
deconstruction of mainline cultural boundaries and ethnic limitations in
real life?
Netropolis III: Critical Theory, Social/Psychological (Panel III)
Possible topics for this panel
1. Real versus virtual identity in IRC
2. Virtual communities and social theory 3. Online relationships and their
possible effects upon offline relationships
4. Internet addiction
5. Cyberlove
6. Is there a critical theory for cyberculture?
Netropolis IV: The Electronic Civitas (Panel IV) Possible topics for this panel
1. Netizenship
2. The Internet and digital 'democractization' 3. Reflections of Native
American Politics on the Internet 4. Politics of online counter
cultures/subcultures 5. The Internet as a reflection of populist grassroots
political theory
Netropolis V: The Virtual University (Panel V) Possible topics for the panel
1. The future for online courses
2. Cyberspace and its effect on distance learning, particularly with
respect to minority communities 3. Electronic property rights and copyright
4. Traditional classroom versus virtual classroom: implications for student
learning
5. Bridging distances and building learning environments through computer
technologies
Send a brief abstract (200-300 words)by 1 December 2000, to:
Dr. Patricia L. Steed
Dept of English
Northwestern Oklahoma State Univ
Alva, OK 73717
E-Mail Home: [log in to unmask]
E-Mail Office: [log in to unmask]
Telephone Home: 580.327.2708
Telephone Office: 580.327.8470 (voice mail)
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
The ST-PCA/ACA 2001 conference will meet at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel in
the historic district of Albuquerque, NM, March 7-10. Please consult the
ST-PCA/ACA web site below for details about airline and hotel registration:
http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca/default.html Also, see the page for online
pre-registration: http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca/regswpca.html
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Ý'SOUND AND THE MOVING IMAGE: VOICE, MUSIC, EFFECTS'
A three year international research and development project, which will
produce a comprehensive text on the use and history of music, voice and
sound in film, TV, multi-media etc has recently commenced.
This is an alert call for all persons with an interest in suggesting topic
areas, who might be interested in writing on specific subjects, and/or who
have a strong research and/or practice based interest in this field. You
are invited to email the [log in to unmask] site to register
your interests.
It is expected over 300 contributors will be involved in this project
worldwide and be drawn from a wide variety of subject specialisms relating
to music, technology,multi-media, film, TV and broadcasting, and so on.
Anyone with an interest in the subject can leave their contact mail/numbers
and a list of their specialisms at this site address.
The General Editor
'Sound and the Moving Image: Voice, Music, Effects' (Continuum)
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Call for Papers: 'Violence, Cinema, and American Culture,' Center for the
Humanities, University of Missouri-St. Louis, April 6-7, 2001.
Papers and panels are invited for a conference on film and violence. We
seek a wide-ranging program on a variety of topics, including
technical/technological and representational issues; philosophical,
psychoanalytical, and historical/historicist approaches; violence and
genre; violence and ideology. Invited speakers include Noel Carroll, Carol
Clover, and William Ian Miller.
Completed papers should not exceed 20/25 minutes' reading time. Please send
250-word abstracts by October 30, 2000, to
Frank Grady or Paul Roth
Department of English Department of Philosophy
University of Missouri, St-Louis University of
Missouri, St-Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road 8001 Natural Bridge
Road
St. Louis, MO 63121 St. Louis, MO 63121
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fax (314) 516-5781 fax (314) 516-5816
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MOVING THE IMAGE
VISUAL CULTURE AND THE NEW MILLENIUM
Sixteenth Annual CHArt Conference
Courtauld Institute of Art
Friday 1st - Saturday 2nd September 2000
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER
10.00 - 10.30 registration and coffee
10.30 Welcome Speech
Introduction to Conference by Will Vaughan 10.45 John Wyver, Illuminations
Television/ Birkbeck College 'You are there': Inhabited Television and the
Perils of Pompeii 11.30 Charlie Gere, Birkbeck College
Punk and Digital Culture
12.15 Anna Bentkowska, Courtauld Institute of Art Moving Images, Shifting
Notions. Who can trust the digital image? 13.00 - 14.00 lunch
13.00 - 15.00 DEMONSTRATIONS
14.30 - 15.00 CHArt Annual General Meeting 15.00 Kalliope Koundouri, Athens
Beauty: The forgotten Criterion re-emerges 15.45 - 16.00 tea
16.00 Reinhold Weinmann, European Media Laboratory Heidelberg Architecture
Base. A data base for 3D-models of buildings 16.45 Mike Pringle, English
Heritage
300,000 monuments. One VR model
17.30 Oliver Vicars-Harris, Tate Britain TATE ACTION (Access To Images ON-line)
18.30 RECEPTION IN COURTAULD INSTITUTE GALLERIES Welcome Speech: Professor
Eric Fernie, Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art
SATURDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER
9.45 Gina Cavallo Collins, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
State University The Future of Video Art in the Digital Age 10.30 Karen
Wallis, University of the West of England Exhibiting Digital Art
11.15 coffee
11.30 Patrick McNaughton, Indiana University A CD-ROM on African Art and
Culture, with a closer look at Bird Masdqu 12.15 Polly Elkin, Victoria and
Albert Museum Securing the Object: The Photo Survey Project at the V&A
13.00 - 14.30 lunch
14.30 Michael Greenhalgh, Australian National University Virtual Reality in
Architecture; A VRML Model of Borobudar (Java) 15.15 tea
15.45 Matthew Landus, Wolfson College Oxford The Construction of Virtual
Museums and Visual Archives. Official and 'Pirate' sites. Digital Imagery
and the Law 16.30 Debbie Kent, Visual Arts Data Service Transforming Visual
Image Archives for Learning and Teaching 17.15 close of conference
Professor W.H.T.Vaughan
School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media Birkbeck College,
University of London
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD
Tel;+44(0)2076316127
fax;+44(0)2076316107
Email [log in to unmask]
Booking information is now available online: http://www.chart.ac.uk
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