Felicity Colman
(Manchester Metropolitan University)
Wednesday 14 November 2012, 6pm, On Location, National Media Museum
The Matter of Technology: Bergson, film and media evolution
Technologies such as film and other content situating media provide
agency for matter, concepts, and ideas to circulate. Media forms are
active and affective platforms that facilitate, direct, and sustain an
event - of subjectivity, of the re- and de-territorialization of
content, form, or place, of some type of ontological commitment to
knowledge or belief. This talk will discuss how Henri Bergsons
address of technology provides an approach useful for the analysis of
mediatization processes. How are technologies such as film and other
content situating media able to facilitate and sustain qualitative
change? The talk will engage documentary film that is reliant upon the
matter of technology producing content, as produced and or staged as
the before or after the event [of protest / revolution / of
militarization / of accident or disaster].
Felicity Colman is Reader in Screen Media and Centre Leader of the
MIRIAD Media Research unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. She
is the author of Deleuze and Cinema (2011 Berg), editor of Film,
Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Acumen Publishing 2009) and
co-editor of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (Cambridge Scholars
Press 2007).
TIMECODE
a seminar series in media
Run by the Communication Culture and Media research group in the
Bradford Media School, School of Computing Informatics and Media
(SCIM), this regular seminar series explores the increasingly
important relationship between media, technology, culture and society.
SCIM has a long tradition of operating across artistic and
scientific academic disciplines and is expanding its creative
portfolio. Hosted by the National Media Museum, and supported by their
superb facilities, the series recognises the importance of the
National Media Museum as a forum for these critical debates.
All seminars are FREE and begin at 6pm, On Location, National Media
Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ. Tel: 0870 70 10 200
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
For more information on the series contact: Mark Goodall
([log in to unmask]) Tel +44 (0)1274 236071
http://bms.brad.ac.uk/research/timecode.php
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