Call for Papers - Graduate Conference on
Cinema
CALL FOR PAPERS
Experimental Cinema
Graduate Conference on Cinema
Conference Date: April 3rd, 2004, University of Chicago
Keynote Address: Branden Joseph, University of California at
Irvine
Deadline for Abstracts: January 1st, 2004
Experimental
Cinema is the second annual Graduate Cinema Conference at the
University of Chicago, a one-day event that will bring together new
work being done by graduate students on experimental cinema.
We
welcome papers from graduate students on a wide range of topics,
including, but not limited to, the following:
-Experimental film practice and music, video,
performance
-Experimental cinema and mainstream/commercial film practice,
independent filmmaking, and Hollywood
-Experimental film and the art world (galleries, museums,
periodicals)
-Critical reception of experimental, underground, and avant-garde
cinema
-Experimental cinema and aesthetics
-Experimental cinema and technology
-Experimental cinema and phenomenology
-Expanded Cinema
-Films: production and exhibition histories, formal analyses
-Filmmakers and artists: their films, writings, theories, and work in
other media
-Institutional histories
-The future of experimental cinema
Over the
past few years, scholars, especially young scholars, have been
re-examining experimental cinema as a major filmic and artistic
genre. Greater consideration has been given to thinking about
experimental film in relation to the other arts, and to thinking about
its own institutional histories. As the formative periods of avant-garde,
underground, and experimental cinema (the 1920s, post-war
decades, 1960's & 70's, etc.) are approached and reconsidered by a
new generation, Experimental Cinema will provide an opportunity
for graduate students currently working on these topics to share their
research, gauge various methodological and theoretical questions, and
hopefully develop new ones.
The keynote speaker is Branden Joseph, Assistant Professor of Art
History at the University of California at Irvine. Joseph's talk
will focus on his recent research on Tony Conrad's films The
Flicker and The Eye of Count Flickerstein.
Branden Joseph's
publications include "'My Mind Split Open': Andy Warhol's
Exploding Plastic Inevitable" and Random Order: Robert
Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (MIT Press, 2003). He
is also the co-editor of the journal Grey Room.
The deadline for abstracts (300-400 words) is January 1st, 2004.
Please e-mail all abstracts to [log in to unmask] with
"Conference Abstract" in the subject heading.
Limited financial assistance for travel may be available for
international students.
