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Reinventing Reality
From: "Alison Rodgers" <[log in to unmask]>

Dundee Contemporary Arts

Reinventing Reality

DCA explores reality in the first events in this ongoing series.
Manipulation, reinvention, rhetoric. Artists, documentary-makers, the
media. Who is mediating our reality and what techniques and
strategies are they using in the growing exchange between art,
reportage, fiction and entertainment?

Amy Hardie: Docspace
Thursday 21 November
6.30pm, Cinema 2
UKP3.50 (UKP2)

A special screening of extracts from key works of documentary
film-making and a passionate argument about the importance of this
essential genre that attempts to portray the real in endlessly
creative, challenging ways.

Sarah Tripp on 'Testatika'
Thursday 28 November
7pm, Cinema 2
UKP3.50 (UKP2)

A special screening as acclaimed artist Sarah Tripp gives her
compelling account of the making of her film 'Testatika' that
'documents' her investigation into the Testatika machine, a potential
solution to the world's energy problems.

To book or for more information Call DCA Box Office on 01382 909900



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THE SPECTACLE OF THE REAL
FROM HOLLYWOOD TO 'REALITY' TV AND BEYOND

BRUNEL UNIVERSITY 25-26 JANUARY 2003

Keynote speakers:
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology

Conference Fees
UKP95 for both days (students UKP65)
UKP50 for one day (students UKP35)


Programme
SATURDAY 25 January

Registration/coffee, 9-10

Keynote, 10 -11:
Douglas Kellner, UCLA, '9-11, Terror War and Media Spectacle: Welcome
to the New Orwellian World'

Coffee

Session 1: Spectacle, Ideology, Catastrophe 11.30 -1.15 Eugene Arva,
University of Miami, 'Life as Show Time: Aesthetic Images and
Ideological Spectacles' Lee Rodney, Goldsmiths, London, 'Real-time,
Catastrophe, Spectacle: Reality as Fantasy in Live Media' Geoff King,
Brunel University, '"Just Like a Movie?": 9-11 and Hollywood
Spectacle' Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, 'Teratology of the
Spectacle'

Lunch, 1.15 -2.15

Session 2: Reality/TV, 2.15-4.00
Christine Fanthome, 'The Unrealities of Reality TV' Amy West,
University of Aukland, 'The Low-Tech Reality Effect and 'Visual
Ordinariness' Misha Kavka, University of Aukland, 'Reality Matters;
or, How I Learned to love Reality TV' Annette Hill, University of
Westminster, 'Real TV; Audience Resonses to Factual Entertainment'

Tea/coffee

Session 3: Reality TV/Documentary, 4.30-6.00 Strand 1
Deborah Jermyn, Southampton Institute,'"It's the most dramatic thing
you can have": CCTV and the spectacle of actuality in television
crime appeal programming' Leon Hunt, Brunel University,
'Hell-in-a-Cell and Other Stories: Violence and Authenticity in
'Hardcore' Wrestling' Bernadette Flynn, Griffith University,
Brisbane, 'Docobriocalage in the age of simulation'

Strand 2
Tanya Horeck, Anglia Polytechnic University,'Public Rape: Raw Deal: A
Question of Consent' Frances Bonner, University of Queensland,
'"Looking Inside": Showing Operations on Medical Television' Karen
Scott, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television,
Bradford,'The Spectacle of "the Past": Contemporary documentary and
the role of new technology'

Drinks/Food

SUNDAY 26 January
Coffee, 9-9.30

Session 4, 9.30-11.00
Strand 1: Emotions/Trauma
Michele Aaron, Brunel University, Spectacles of Death and the
complicitous spectator (title tbc) Kathy Smith, London Metropolitan
University, 'Reframing Fantasy: September 11 and the Global Audience'
Pat Cook, Brunel University, 'Watching Telly: Emotion Studies and the
Question of Moral Responsibility'

Strand 2
Hilary Harris, Griffith University, Brisbane, 'Military
Humanitarianism: To spectacularize the military but not to militarise
the spectacle' Jon Kraszewski, Indiana University, 'Narratives and
Spectacles of Race on MTV's Reality Show "The Real World"' Julia
Hallam, University of Liverpool, 'Split screen spectacles: engaging
viewers in the multi-channel TV landscape'

Coffee

Session 5: Film, 11.30-1.15
Michele Pierson, University of Queensland, 'A Production Designer's
Cinema: Authenticity and Allusion in Historical-Fantasy Film' Lisa
Purse, University of Reading, 'The New Spatial Dynamics of the
Bullet-Time Effect' Pat Brereton, Dublin City Universtiy,
'Representations of Historical, Ecological and Future Disasters - A
case study of Spielberg's use of SFX' Taek-Gwang Lee, University of
Sheffield, 'The Logic of Computer-Generated Film'

Lunch, 1.15-2.15

Session 6: Film/Animation, 2.15-4.00
Strand 1
Julian Petley, Brunel, 'Real Life Death' Peg Aloi, Emerson College,
'Beyond the Blair Witch: A New Horror Aesthetic?' Mike Wayne, Brunel,
'Spectacles of Reification: Possession, Ghosts and Value Theory Tanya
Krzywinska, Brunel University, 'The Enigma of the Real: Authentic Sex
in Contemporary "Legitimate" Cinema'

Strand 2
Seth Giddings, University of West of England, '"They must be
simulated": Animation as Spectacular Realism' Paul Ward, Brunel
University, '"I was dreaming I was awake, but then I woke up and
found myself asleep": Dreaming, Spectacle and Reality in Richard
Linklater's Waking Life' Martin Flanagan, Bolton Institute, 'Toy
Stories: Technology, Space and Realism in Pixar Films'

Session 7, 4.30-6pm
Closing keynote and plenary discussion
Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, 'New Media and the
Remediation of Spectacle'


Geoff King
Film and TV Studies
Brunel University, UK
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From: "Natasha Anderson" <[log in to unmask]> Bcc:

Institute of International Visual Arts



Friday 22 November 2002, 2pm at TheSpace@inIVA, 6-8 Standard Place,
Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3BE

For those of you who missed the opening of MSDM: Outsourcing last
week. As part of inIVA's Soft season of exhibitions and debates,
Zeigam Azizov (artist/critic) will be in conversation with Paula
Roush on the 'Domestication of Visual Pleasure' on Friday, 22
November at [log in to unmask] This will be followed by a guided walk to
the Geffrye Museum of English domestic interiors, (Refreshments will
be provided.)

Please call 020 7729 9616 to book your place.

MAD exhibition: 13/11 - 6/12/02
http://www.iniva.org/soft/project_06.html



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To: Film- Philosopy-Editor


From

JosŽ Manuel Ferreira Diz
      Production Manager




Dear sir,


I have the pleasure to present you our production

"The missing word"

writen and directed by Alfredo Colunga.

The story can be described as follows (excuse the translation):

Ivan Trab’a, a genetic engineer in the mid-fortys, suddenly discovers
that he«s suffering a terminal disease. Couldly he abandons the
scientific procedures,  puts a camera in front of him and starts
speculating about the long-term future of human kind. Cold and
rational as he wants to appear, he even entrust a friend to tape his
own death... The truth is that at the end we doubt if what we have
heard was solid or nothing but an attractive but presocratic
delirium, but... isn«t it a human need to speculate? And even more:
if religions must not be presented as the only possible answer...
wouldn«t it  be then a scientific obligation to take the risk?


Made in Betacam digital, we are now at the end of the postproduction
process (sound-mixing). Then, we will kinescope it to present it as
35mm. In this way It will be presented as a 20 min. short film.

But, because its fragmentary structure, the director would like to
present it also as a video installation (he even prefers to show it
that way).

We are looking for favourable scenarios to present the work, which is
unusual enough as for not to be sure about how to distribute it. If
you think the work may result you interesting, with pleasure we will
send you a copy ,spanish filmed-english subtitled.

Enclosed is the design for the cover.

If you want to know more about our work, please have a look at our
web page. But some of our last works- very interesting- are not yet
included on it.


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From: "Rick Curnutte, Jr." <[log in to unmask]> To:
<[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Contact Update/The Film Journal Issue 4 Update Date: Mon, 18
Nov 2002 12:34:28 -0500
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Importance: Normal
X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam.

Dear Everyone (my apologies if you receive this more than once, I
have two separate address books):

First of all, my personal email address has changed. Please send all
new emails to:
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]

Secondly, in the call for submissions that we sent out for Issue 4,
we neglected to include the following desired pieces:


Top Ten Lists for 2002 (we are going to be fairly loose on this one;
as The Film Journal has a largely international readership, your top
ten may include films released anywhere in the world...it does not
have to have a U.S. commerical release to be included on your list.
This includes films seen at festivals, in countries abroad, films
that have not been picked up for distribution, films that have had a
video/DVD release only, films that were released on television, etc.)
Articles about the films of 2002 in general or a film in particular
(i.e. why XYZ Film was the best of the year, why a particular film
was over/underrated, the best performances of the year, a standout
debut film, etc.) Please feel free to have free reign on this "End of
the Year" issue. We welcome and encourage your interpretations of the
cinematic year that is nearly ended. Please respond by the deadline
of December 31, 2002.

Also, please be sure to let us know if your lists are ranked in order
of preference, because we will be doing a "poll" of the lists to come
up with a final The Film Journal's Top Ten List. Your lists will be
published with your name attached to them (unless you'd prefer not,
then it will be polled anonymously). Feel free to also include brief
summaries as to why you chose the films on your list.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to email me at any time.


Sincerely,

Richard A. Curnutte, Jr.
Editor, The Film Journal
250 Pruden Drive
Pickerington, OH 43147
614.834.8867
<http://www.thefilmjournal.com/>www.thefilmjournal.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS

CULTURAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION

FOUNDING CONFERENCE
JUNE 5-8, 2003
PITTSBURGH, PA

The Cultural Studies Association will hold its founding conference in
Pittsburgh on the weekend of June 5-8, 2003. The CSA will be a
multicultural and multidisciplinary professional organization
bringing together scholars, teachers, and writers interested in the
study of culture. All are welcome.

The Conference Organizers invite paper and panel proposals that deal
with culture in any of its aspects--products, works, forms, behavior,
institutions, etc.--in relation to social, aesthetic, historical,
economic, political, or semiotic conditions and issues. Papers may be
theoretical, empirical, and/or interpretive in their approach, and
may come out of any discipline or several disciplines.

Those wishing to propose a paper presentation or to propose a panel
should send their proposals of no more than 500 words to by February
15, 2003.

Prof. Sangeeta Ray
Department of English
University of Maryland
3191 Susquehanna Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Email: [log in to unmask]

The Cultural Studies Association will serve as the professional
organization for writers and teachers engaged in the critical
analysis of culture. It will hold an annual conference and maintain a
membership/mailing list for the purpose of creating a community of
scholars with a shared interest in Cultural Studies. We expect that
the organization and its conference will reflect broadly the various
strands of cultural studies today. We especially welcome people
interested in building the new organization.

Preliminary List of Participants

Jody Berland, Richard Day, Arif Dirlik, Michael Eric Dyson, Rita
Felski, Judith Halberstam, Henry Giroux, Larry Grossberg, Dick
Hebdige, Peter Hitchcock, Linda Kauffman, Wahneema Lubiano, Kelly
Oliver, Mark Poster, Janice Radway, Bruce Robbins, Will Straw, Paul
Théberge, Michael Warner

Cultural Studies Association Organizing Committee: Nancy Condee,
Leerom Medovoi, Sangeeta Ray, Michael Ryan, David Shumway, Imre Szeman



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From: "Ollivier Dyens" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Metal and Flesh: Fall 2002

The Fall 2002 edition of Metal and Flesh is now online

In the text section:

Steven Pinker : Life in the Fourth Millennium Jodi Dean: Celebrity's Drive
Lev Manovich: The Anti-Sublime in New Media Art Ollivier Dyens: La
Nouvelle connaissance

In the artwork section :

Christina McPhee : 47 Reds (flash)
Jim Andrews: Arteroids (flash)

Plus the second edition of the Vigil of Planetary Netart, where
artists select netarworks from the web.

http://www.metalandflesh.com



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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 16:50:58 +0400
To: [log in to unmask]
From: [log in to unmask] (Caroline Beven) Subject: screen
studies call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

Screen Studies Conference 2003
organized by Screen journal

University of Glasgow
Scotland
4-6 July 2003

The 13th International Screen Studies Conference will offer a mix of
keynote addresses, panels and workshop sessions.

Please note that this is, as usual, an OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS, which
may be on any topic in screen studies.

However, we are particularly interested in forming a strand within
this year's conference on the subject of FILM AND TELEVISION DESIGN,
as it relates to the areas of:
textual analysis
theoretical discussion
spectacle
special effects
space and place

Papers on this area are therefore particularly welcome.

Please send us your 200-word proposal to arrive no later than MONDAY
20 JANUARY 2003.

Panel submissions of up to four speakers are also welcome.

Proposals and enquiries to Caroline Beven by e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Please mark subject box 'Conference 2003'. It is simpler for us if
the proposal is simply contained in the e-mail message, NOT sent as a
separate attachment.

or by post:
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Scotland

or by fax:
0141 330 3515 (from outside UK: +44 141 330 3515)

You will be notified of acceptance by the end of February.

Updates and further details of the conference will posted on our
website as they become available:
http://www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk

While on the site, you can also check out the programme and abstracts
from the most recent Screen Studies Conference, held 28-30 June 2002.

Caroline Beven
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre for Theatre Film & TV Glasgow University
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland UK
[log in to unmask]
tel: 0141 330 5035
fax: 0141 330 3515
http://www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk



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Islam, The Public and Private Spheres
5 to 7 December 2002, New York, United States

UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT

The distinction between public and private is one of society's most
crucial and contested issues. Islam, one of the world's most populous
religions, is also, at least in the West, perhaps the most
misunderstood. This conference explores the diversity of Islamic
societies worldwide, probing their varying conceptions of privacy as
a way of illuminating how these societies resemble and differ from
each other and our own, at a time when this understanding is of
critical importance.

Conference Program:

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5th
Session 1: Keynote Address      6:00 - 7:30 p.m
Understandings of public and private in Islamic societies. Speaker:
Moshen Kadivar

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th
Session 2: Islamic Law: Boundaries and Rights: Case Studies     9:30
a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
How are questions of boundaries and rights negotiated in states
governed by Sharia? How do these negotiations compare with those in
predominantly Muslim states governed by civil law, or possibly
Islamic communities in the diaspora?
Speakers: Baber Johansen, Brinkley Messick, Roy Mottahedeh, Frank Vogel
Moderator: Talal Asad

Session 3: Individual, Family, Community and State: Case Studies
        1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
What is the concept of the individual? How are distinctions between
public and private articulated within and across the boundaries of
individual, family, community and state?
Speakers: Juan Cole, Nilufer Gole, Mehrangiz Kar, Saba Mahmood
Moderator: Leila Ahmed

Session 4: Media and Information: Case Studies   6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Who determines what and how information is made public? What is the
role of the media in civil society and its impact on privacy?
Speakers: Geneive Abdo, Jon Anderson, Hafez al-Mirazi, Hassan Mneimneh
Moderator: Kian Tajbakhsh

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7th
Session 5: Representations of Privacy in Literature and Film: Case
Studies 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. How are the concepts of privacy and
the private sphere interpreted and represented in literature and
film? Art imitating life/life imitating art?
Speakers: Hamid Dabashi, Assia Djebar, Azar Nafisi, Orhan Pamuk
Moderator: Farh



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From: "Suzanne Buchan" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: P\Box: Call
for Papers: Animated 'Worlds' Conference UK 9-11 July 2003

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers (Apologies for cross-postings)


Animated ‘Worlds’
July 9-11, 2003
Farnham Castle International Conference Centre, England


What do we mean by the term ‘animation’ when we are discussing film?
Is it a technique? – A style? – A way of seeing or experiencing ‘a
world’ that has little relation to our own lived experience of 'the'
world, or to other cinematic experiences, for that matter? What
effect have digital technologies had on our understanding and
perception of animation film? What are the methods, terminologies and
languages we use to describe what we view on screen? The Animated
‘Worlds’ conference is concerned with these and other questions and
with how we can better define specific queries around animation that
are essential before we can begin to provide answers to them.

Animation is perhaps the most auteur form of filmmaking. The
Animation Research Centre at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design
foregrounds UK independent animation, a national body of works and a
rich array of films that substantiate this claim. The conference
especially aims to encourage contributors to present microanalyses of
British films that illuminate our understanding of individual films,
rather than hypotheses based on broad and idiosyncratic corpi. These
microanalyses can provide methodologies that, in turn, may initiate
future research.

Animation studies also needs a language that can be specifically used
in critical and theoretical writings on animation film. Critics and
scholars are developing and defining Etienne Souriau’s pre-requisite
of a ‘well-made language’, essential to any scientific discipline.
The recourse is often to interdisciplinary approaches that are
weakened by unclear methodologies and conclusions. The conference
hopes to encourage speculation on what the ‘problem’ of animation is,
and initiate discussion about what a filmological language of
animation scholarship could be.

The conference aims to provide a platform for approaches that address
the recent ‘turn’ in film studies, a shift away from ‘Grand Theory’
that should apply to all films, and increasingly towards ‘piecemeal’
approaches that concentrate on individual films. Current debates in
film studies around cognitive theory, emotion and phenomenology are
also freeing the spectator from the passive role that earlier theory
posits. The conference will privilege submissions that attempt to
develop small-scale questions through oblique, possibly
interdisciplinary, approaches.

Conference Topics
The organisers welcome submissions from researchers and graduate
students in the fields of cinema studies, theories of architecture
and art and visual culture as well as other interdisciplinary
approaches that align to the topic. Thematic sessions are planned,
some to be grouped as panel discussions, others as individual papers
or joint presentations incorporating audience discussions. Invited
speakers include Prof. Vivian Sobchack (UC Los Angeles), Hon. Fellow
Kristin Thompson (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Prof. Wolfgang
Beilenhoff (Head of the Institute for Media Studies, Rühr-University
of Bochum), Prof. Simon Critchley (Head of the Department of
Philosophy, University of Essex) and PD Dr.Richard Weihe (University
Witten/Herdecke, Faculty for the Studium Fundamentale).

Animation spectatorship: philosophical, cognitive or phenomenological
approaches;
Narrative and non-narrative ‘worlds’ in animation films; The figure,
automata, simulacra and the ‘Doppelgänger’; Analytical and
methodological approaches to single films; Relations of architecture,
scale, space and time.

Other themes to be considered that expand on these central issues
are: Reflections upon the fine-arts base of animation; Fine arts at
the digital edge;
Archives in context;
Are they all auteurs?

We plan to publish conference results on the forthcoming ARC on-line
peer-reviewed journal. The publication may also appear in paper form.

Abstracts that align to these topics should be no longer than 250
words and include a title, reference bibliography and contact details
(including email). Submission deadline is Friday December 13th, 2002.
Abstracts will be reviewed and selected by a panel and contributors
informed by the end of January 2003. Please send (attachments must be
RTF-Format or PC) to:

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or to the postal mail address below. Confirmations for received
abstract submissions will be sent by email.

Animated ‘Worlds’ is organised by the Animation Research Centre (ARC)
at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College with
support from, and in collaboration with, the Animation Department at
the Royal College of Art, London, the international Society for
Animation Studies (SAS), the British Artists’ Film & Video Study
Collection, Central St. Martins, London (AHRB Centre for Film &
Television Studies) and LUX, London (other collaborations and support
pending)

The conference will be held at Farnham Castle International
Conference Centre, 50 minutes by train from Central London
(Waterloo). Attendance is limited to 60. As we aim for lively
exchange and discussion throughout the conference and are planning
evening events, participants are encouraged to take advantage of the
limited special offer of rooms available the Castle. Travel and
accommodation details will be posted with the other conference
information on the ARC website (below) in January.

For more information, please check the ARC website
(www.surrart.ac.uk/arc) which will be regularly updated.

Contact:
Suzanne Buchan
Animation Research Centre (ARC)
Faculty of Arts & Media
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Falkner Road
Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS
England

+41 (0)1252 892 806
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