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Crash Cultures
Day Event: 9.30 to 5.30 on Saturday 30th November 2002
At the Watershed Media Centre, Canons Road, Bristol.
The crash has recurred as a central event in the visual cultures of the 20th century, from the celluloid spectacles of early cinema to the digital domain of computer games. Presentations and screenings throughout the day will offer multiple perspectives on the significance of these repetitions, with time also to discuss your reactions.
Guest speaker is Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago who will be talking about Spectacles of Destruction in Early Cinema. His many books have concentrated on early cinema and the culture of modernity from which cinema arose. His concept of the "cinema of attractions" relates the development of cinema to other forces than storytelling, such as new experiences of space and time in modernity, and an emerging modern visual culture.
Other presentations are drawn from a collection of essays: Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material, edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant (Intellect Books 2002):
Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage. Harjit Khaira (Warwick University) and Gerry Carlin (Wolverhampton University).
How It Feels - explores how IT feels. SHaH (Seminar for Hypertheory and Heterology, Institute of Cultural Studies, Lancaster University).
Fuel, Metal, Air: a Mutimedia Performance. Michelle Henning and Becky Goddard (University of the West of England)
This event is supported by the School of Cultural Studies, in liaison with the Centre for Critical Theory, at the University of the West of England.
Ticket price: £15 or £10 for concessions from the Watershed box office Tel.0117 927 5100. Further information about the details of the programme can be found at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/humanities/intro/conference/CrashCulture.shtml
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