Indefinite Visions
Whitechapel Gallery, Zilkha Auditorium
June 24-5, 11.30am-5.45pm
A two-day event bringing together academics, film-makers and artists to explore the indefinite and the illegible in moving images – from artists’ film and video to experimental film and commercial cinema.
Light, motion, definition, compression: the conditions of recording, storing and screening moving image works are subject to constant variations that pull them away from perfect visibility. Film-makers and artists often seek out and work with the resulting visual uncertainty, from the warping of space to the melding of senses; speed to slowness; darkness to glare; and blur to glitch. Indefinite Visions explores the possibility that an important function of moving image is not to show but to obscure, and that – like the photographer in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up – the closer and deeper we look at an image, the less clear it becomes.
Participating artists will include film-maker and director of Light Cone, Emmanuel Lefrant; double 25FPS prize-winner Takashi Makino; Jacques Perconte, whose latest film Ettrick recently screened at MoMA's DocFortnight; leading glitch artist Rosa Menkman; Ars Electronica prize-winning computational film-maker Anouk de Clerq; nanoartist Frederick de Wilde; and Slade Professor of Art Susan Collins.
Speakers will include D.N.Rodowick, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Catherine Fowler, Emmanuelle André, Holly Rogers, Paul Thomas, Sean Cubitt, Allan Cameron, Richard Misek, Erika Balsom, Martine Beugnet, Christa Blümlinger, Arild Fetveit, and Maria Palacios Cruz.
Each day will include presentations, conversations, and screenings on film and video, complemented by two evening programmes of films at Close Up Film Centre. The event will also feature a programme of screenings curated by Kim Knowles, programmer of Edinburgh Film Festival's 'Black Box' strand. VR installation 'Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness', winner of this year's Tribeca Interactive award, will also be installed as an expanded cinema experience at Close Up on both days.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/indefinite-visions/
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2016/indefinite-visions-part-i
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2016/indefinite-visions-part-ii
The event is curated by Richard Misek and Allan Cameron, and supported by a Digital Transformations grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (@DigiTrans).
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