Dear all,
With apologies for cross-posting, you are invited to join us for the following symposium:
Reconsidering Movie Special Effects: Aesthetics, Reception, and Remediation
Wednesday 8 March, 2017, 1.30pm-6pm
HUMSS Building Rm 124, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading
In an era in which digital visual effects are ubiquitous, questions of aesthetic achievement and imaginative and creative labour are central to industry and public discourses on special effects
craft.
At the same time, this ubiquity and its reception obscure the long aesthetic and craft histories of cinematic special effects, histories that are nostalgically invoked in much contemporary digital
media practice.
This symposium will seek to unpick this complex web of relations between histories of reception, craft, and artistic endeavour in a reappraisal of the ‘special effect’ and its contemporary manifestations.
1.30pm
Coffee and welcome
2pm
Lisa Bode (Queensland), ‘Being There: Screen Performers, Greenscreen, and Imaginary Interactions’
Frances A. Kamm (Kent), ‘“A Strange Netherworld”: The Motion-Capture Films of Robert Zemeckis’
Lisa Purse (Reading), ‘Nostalgic textures: exploitation redux in digital genre cinema’
3.30pm
Coffee break
4pm
Nick Jones (QMUL), ‘Depth Labour: Crafting 3D Cinema’
Andrew Elliott (Lincoln), ‘Special Effects and CGI in the Epic Film’
William Brown (Roehampton), ‘Wakaliwood: Where supercinema meets non-cinema’
5.30pm
Closing discussion
Those who wish to are welcome to join us for a bite to eat after the symposium closes.
To book your free place at the symposium, please click on the following link (Eventbrite):
http://tinyurl.com/jvdhl4e
Please share with interested colleagues.
Best wishes,
Lisa Purse (University of Reading) and Lisa Bode (University of Queensland)