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"Reading Godard: Intertextuality and the Film and
Video Work of Jean-Luc Godard"
Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature
The University of Iowa
April 5-7, 2002
"I think it's a quote, but now to me quotes and myself are almost the
same" - Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is the most allusive of filmmakers, and the central role
of intertextuality, with all its difficulties and demands, has been an
essential factor in the filmmaker's work throughout his fifty year career.
While criticism has broached the issue, it has frequently been
underdeveloped and narrow in focus. Thus this conference will renew and
expand the exploration of the intertextual elements in the Godardian
canon: how he has used, and abused, a vast array of "texts" ranging from
the canonical to the marginal, from "the profound" to "the perverse." At
the procedural level, too, "Reading Godard" seeks to move beyond the
dominant theoretical paradigmata that have traditionally been mobilized to
interpret this body of work: psychoanalysis, Marxism, deconstruction, and,
more recently, theories of historiography.
To this end, we are currently accepting paper proposals that would focus
on extended consideration of specific intertexts in Godard's film, video,
and/or written work. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
Godard and Literature(s)
Godard and Painting (or Sculpture)
Godard and Contemporary Video Practice
Godard and Music
Godard and Philosophy
Godard and Theology
Godard and European/American Film
Godard and his Collaborators
Godard as Poet
Godard and Scientific/Technical Discourse
"Reading Godard" is interdisciplinary in scope and strongly encourages
submissions and participation from across disciplines beyond those
commonly associated with film. Attendance and participation from those
working outside the academy is also welcome, and events including
screenings and discussions are planned.
Formal paper presentations should be between 20 and 30 minutes in length.
Please submit a 300 word proposal and contact information to:
"Reading Godard"
162 Becker Communication Studies Bldg.
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
52242
Phone: (319) 335-1348
PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 1st, 2002
For further information, please contact:
Chris Babey,
Conference Committee Chair,
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SCREEN STUDIES CONFERENCE
28 - 30 June 2002
University of Glasgow
SCOTLAND
UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen, will
offer a mix of keynote addresses, panel and workshop sessions on an open
range of screen studies topics
Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail (but NOT as attachment,
please), post or fax to arrive no later than Friday 18 January 2002.
Please mark subject box of e-mail 'Conference 2002'
As well as individual papers, we are also pleased to consider pre-arranged
panels of between 2 and 4 speakers.
Caroline Beven
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre for Theatre Film & TV
Glasgow University
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland UK
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tel: 0141 330 5035
fax: 0141 330 3515
http://www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk
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European Media Art Festival 2002
Osnabrueck
24.-28.April 2002
http://www.emaf.de
--Call for entries!!!--
The theme of this year's EMAF 2002 is "New Images - New Stories " -
Art in Modern Media. Productions from internationally renowned artists
as well as innovative works from creative young talents are on
exhibition.
The EMAF plays a major role as a forum for international media art
presenting film, video, performances, multimedia installations and
digital media such as CD-ROM, DVD and the Internet. Specials feature
current productions from China and Korea and the latest XS-Movies for
Internet, mobile phones and handhelds.
As part of the festival the German Film Criticism Prize is awarded to
the best experimental film and video production. The OLB Media Art
Prize
is awarded to the most innovative media installations.
The exhibition of the festival in the Kunsthalle Domenikanerkirche
will
be shown from 24. April - 20. May 2002.
Festivalsections are: Cinema, Exhibition, Congress, Electronic Lounge,
International Studentforum, Performances, Veejay Battle.
We would like to invite you to take part in the EMAF 2001 with your
artworks and projects!
For further information and application forms please visit:
www.emaf.de
Your festival team!
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The EMAF is supported by:
Nord Media-
die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH, Hannover
Stadt Osnabrueck
Ausw”rtiges Amt, Berlin
Bundesministerium f¸r Bildung und Wissenschaft, Bonn
Oldenburgische Landesbank, Oldenburg
EU Commission, Brussels
and
contributions made by other supporters.
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Subject:
CFP: Film (all aspects..)in Albuquerque(12/3/01;SW/TX PCA/ACA,
2/13/02-2/17/02)
CALL FOR PAPERS.....(proposals needed by 10 December...)
FILM
(All aspects...)
SW-TX PCA/ACA CONFERENCE
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXCIO
FEBRUARY 13-17, 2002
Please join the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture annual
meeting in Albuquerque and consider giving a presentation on Film, a
topic of
current concern and one needing scholarly illumination.
Here are some suggestions to consider:
--representations of women in film
--children's film
--animated films
--history of film
--analysis of film language
--theory and film
--films of the Southwest
--neo-noir
--current social issues and film
The 2002 meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA will be at the Albuquerque Hilton
near
the U of New Mexico campus. Special events are planned for the meeting
and
any modern language is welcome for presentations. For details about the
meeting, the site, and travel, see the web site at
www.swtexaspca.org
Please send or e-mail a 100-150 word paper proposal, a brief
biographical
note-BY DECEMBER 10-to:
Mike Schoenecke
English Department, Box 43091
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
FAX: 806-742-0989
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From: "geert lovink" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference, Tampere (Finland),
June 6-8, 2002
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Subject: CFP: Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference
Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference
Call for Papers
June 6-8, 2002
Tampere, Finland
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Computer Games and Digital Cultures (CGDC) conference is organised by the
Hypermedia Laboratory, University of Tampere. It is arranged in co-operation
with the University of Turku and the IT University of Copenhagen, the UIAH
Medialab, Helsinki, and partners in the digital content industry. The
conference continues the series of international game studies conferences
opened by Computer Games and Digital Textualities (Copenhagen, March 1-2,
2001).
Deadline for proposals
January 30, 2002
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Overview
Computer games have rapidly become a significant and expanding field of
entertainment industry and modern culture. The research and development of
games has reached an important phase. Various conceptual and theoretical
models to understand games and their working are being created, while the
games themselves are growing into new dimensions with their online and
multiplayer capabilities. The transition into the world of mobile gaming is
creating even more challenges and further possibilities.
The Computer Games and Digital Cultures conference offers a comprehensive
view into the current state of digital games, and their research, as well as
forums for interdisciplinary discussion. Conference includes presentations
from leading experts, both from the academic research institutions and game
industry, including the opening words by Espen Aarseth (University of
Bergen), keynote presentations by Greg Costikyan (Unplugged Games, USA),
Steven Poole (author of the "Trigger Happy", UK) and designer of games like
Ultima Underworld, System Shock, Thief and Deus Ex, Warren Spector
(Ionstorm, USA).
Agenda
Computer games have grown into an increasingly important cultural form, that
has a profound impact on the way interactivity, digital aesthetics and
online environments are currently understood. The conference will explore
the aesthetic as well as narrative and structural issues of computer games,
while also functioning as a bridge and intermediary between the academic
research and professional gaming community. The approach of conference is
interdisciplinary and comprehensive; the analysis of games and the gaming
communities will advance the study of interactive media, create fruitful
exchange of perspectives with the professional game developers, and further
the development of digital culture.
Workshops
The CGDC has two parts, the first day consisting of workshops that explore
the pragmatic and creative issues of games as a form of culture and
industry. The participants can register for this day separately, or for the
whole three-day conference. The participants may submit proposals for
workshops, focusing on creative design processes, dynamics of gameplay in
particular game types, or, e.g., issues related to technical implementation
or economics of contemporary game projects. Workshops with an academic focus
are also invited. The first day will also include keynote workshops, to be
announced later. In addition, participants are encouraged to offer
suggestions for topics for the panel discussions.
Research Papers
The second and third days are dedicated to the research papers dealing with
games. Both specific analyses of games as a form of art and entertainment
are welcome, as well as more general approaches dealing with the cultural
practices related with games and social activities in online environments.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- design and analysis of games,
- communication and community in relation to games,
- online and mobile gaming.
Since the aim of the CGDC is to foster dialogue between the game developer
and researcher communities, organisers wish that even the more theoretical
papers would include concrete examples or references to games or
game-related practices.
The paper and workshop proposals should be submitted in the form of
abstracts by the end of January 2002. The deadline for full papers is April
8, 2002, and papers will be included in the printed conference publication.
There is a half an hour time reserved for presenting each paper in the
programme.
The Conference Publication
The publication including the conference proceedings will be delivered to
the participants at the conference.
Submission Format
The proposal for a research paper should consist of an abstract of at least
1000 words. A short biography of the author should be included.
The proposal for a workshop has no fixed format. Rather, innovative topics
and creative working practices are encouraged. The workshop proposals should
include a description of the topic, goals and methods applied in the
workshop. The time available for a workshop process is either three hours (a
half-day workshop), or seven hours (a full day workshop). A proposal should
state which alternative it is describing.
All proposals should be submitted through the online form at the CGDC web
site.
Further Inquiries:
For further information and updates on the conference programme, please
consult the conference website: http://www.uta.fi/cgdc (the official website
opens in December 2001).
The organising committee can be reached through professor Frans M”yr”
([log in to unmask]; the conference programme) or conference producer
Carolina Pajula ([log in to unmask]; the conference arrangements).
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From: "Floor van Spaendonck" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: TV NOVA
TV NOVA
Invitation to contribute and to participate
>From 5 till 9 December 2001 in Brussels
Cinema Nova started in 1997 and is an autonomous non-profit cinema in
the city centre of Brussels that screens mainly undistributed films.
Cinema Nova has organised under the name ´ TV NOVA ª regular public
meetings with individuals and organisations active in the domain of
independent television making. During the evening, the guests will
present fragments of their work, their specific way of working and the
constraints they are confronted with, followed by a debate with the
audience.
Cinema Nova proposes now to contribute to and participate in a meeting
that involves independent televisions from Europe and outside. We target
audio-visual media made by citizens, grass roots initiatives,
independent local televisions, community based televisions, broadcast by
cable, web, hertz or satellite.
It seems important to us that these experiences from all over the world
have a place and a space to meet. Very often, they might have heard of
one another, but there's no structural communication amongst them,
although they all share the same kind of experiences and problems.
The idea is to create the necessary instruments for permanent exchange
of information, films and/or images, and to create the necessary
conditions to distribute on an international level.
THE PROGRAM
Thematic workshops
Animated by participants whose projects or experiences are significant
and remarkableÖ These workshops are moments of exchange and discussion
around a specific theme, and can be followed by a more specific and
practical workshop, depending on the participantsí propositions.
(Starting at 2 p.m. ñ some of the contributors are to be confirmed)
Wednesday 5/12: first meeting point
Welcome and presentation of TV Nova and projects of all participants;
this is the first collective contact. This afternoon permits to the
participants to prepare the workshop.
Thursday 6/12: "Other forms of media-activism"
How to use video as a source of counter-information, as a mean of
analysis and investigation in processes of participation and political
decisions (civil empowerment)
Axel Claes (PTTL / Brussels) and Mark Saunders (Spectacle / London)
organise video workshops in a working class area in Brussels. They use
video as mean of communication and as audio-visual base in local
political decision-making, e.g. in urbanism development. Their work is a
good example of audio-visual civil empowerment.
Migra Media is a collective of immigrated women who use video to
construct the image of migrants by deconstructing the image built up by
mass media. They are connected with a local television station in
Barcelona (Spain).
Mark Saunders (Spectacle/Despite TV) gives a practical workshop about
analysis of images of manifestations and other political actions. How to
use these images (own images and/or media images) to give your own
version of the facts? How to discover media manipulation?
Friday 7/12: "Different ways of distribution of independent media"
Distribution by VHS, Web TV, pirate television, distribution by hertz,
new experiences by cableÖ Why this particular choice, what are the
(practical) advantages and what are the consequences?
Undercurrents (UK) are one of the first networks of video-activism who
distributes their production world-wide on compilation tapes.
Pirata (France) is a group of Marseille who literally pirate local
television chains to distribute their own programs.
Zalea TV (France) is an autonomous television that came out of
experiences like Onde Sans FrontiËre and TV Bocal. They negotiated some
months ago a temporarly licence for distributing on the cable.
Saturday 8/12: "www: Web TV, free access, free software"
What are the possibilities for independent media to construct a real web
based work? Can web television be a new experience between local
initiatives ?
IndyMedia is an international network of media-activists who work
locally on web. This experience started with the anti-globalisation
movement in Seattle.
The Journal TÈlÈvisÈ International des Quartiers presents its project
that will use the web as a mean of putting together local experiences
all over the world. Teletambores (Venezuela), Clot RTV (Barcelona),
Maxambomba (Brazil) ñ local area television that shows their productions
literally in the streets- and Catia TV.
Sunday 9/12: conclusion and common projects
Possibility to think about networking (How? What do we expect from it?
How to financeÖ)
video library and exchange of tapes
There will be a space for viewing and exchanging participants' tapes.
This will be permanent during the days of the TV Nova meeting. There
will be possibility to exchange, to copy and to view the tapesÖ.
Screenings, presentations and debates
Every participant will have some time (and the cinema screen) during
public moments in the evening. The different presentations will be
followed by a discussion with the audience. The program is open and will
be constructed following the propositions of the participantsÖ
Animations, concertsÖ
Time to relax and to enjoy your stay in Brussels!
PRACTICAL
Inform us about what you do, what your domain of interest is, so we can
include this into the meeting and the evening programÖ any suggestion is
welcome! As you see, the program is still open to presentations and
workshops. TV Nova provides space, time and possibility to meet, think,
talk and workÖ but the meeting will be what participants propose and
make of it!
TN Nova meeting
date: from 5 till 9 December 2001
place: Cinema Nova, 3 rue Arenberg, 1000 Brussels
Contact:
Cinema Nova: 00 32 2 511 24 77
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From: Mark Jancovich <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Scope's New Articles Now Online
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Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
New Articles are now online.
New Man, Old Brutalisms? Reconstructing a Violent History in Forrest Gump,
By Karen Boyle
The A.I.P. Beach Movies - Cult Films Depicting Subcultural Activities, By
Andrew Caine
"It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody": George Lucas, Star Wars and
Children's Entertainment, By Peter Krämer
Marnie, the Phantom, and the Dead Mother, By Allan Lloyd Smith
They can be reached via the link below.
Mark
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Dr Mark Jancovich
Reader and Director
Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Tel: 0115 951 4250
Fax: 0115 951 4270
URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film
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From: Curt Hagenlocher <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: <nettime> Fighting over movie tickets in Kabul
[translated from the German article at
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,168568,00.html]
Kabul - On Monday, for the first time in five years, the largest cinema in
the Afghan capitol of Kabul showed a film. Fights over tickets erupted in
front of the theater, which has 600 seats. The military police moved in,
forced the crowds back, and arrested two men at the start of the showing.
As the first seconds of the popular film "Urudsch" ("Ascension to Heaven")
flickered across the screen, the exclusively male audience applauded and
cheered loudly. The movie is set in the 80s, and tells the story of three
mujadeheen fighting against the Soviet occupation.
Even before the showing ended, men that hadn't made it into the cinema
managed to break through police barricades and force their way into the
building. Several of them climbed over a metal gate into a balcony on the
second floor. The theater management confirmed additional showings for
the future. They still had a whole row of films that they had managed to
keep hidden during the Taliban's reign.
During the five-year long rule of the radical Islamic Taliban movement,
films and television were prohibited in Afghanistan for religious reasons.
After the US-supported Northern Alliance took the capitol, these bans were
quickly lifed or relaxed. Women, however, are still prohibited from
attending the cinema.
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Curt Hagenlocher
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