Future Histories of the Moving Image Conference
University of Sunderland
16-18 November 2007

Conference Programme

As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online. This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices. It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating moving image culture.

All sessions will be in the Cinema at the Media Centre, St Peter’s Campus

Friday 16th November

12 - 3.45pm: Registration

3.45pm: Conference Welcome:  Professor John Storey (Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland)

4pm:  Keynote: Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, USA)

4:45pm Panel 1: Cinema as Database

– Pat Brereton (Dublin City University, Ireland)
The Influence of Database Logic on Film Structure: A Reading of Science Fiction as Smart Film – Spielberg’s AI and Minority Report
– Aimeé Mitchell (York University, Canada)
Chris Marker: The Electronic Texture of Memory
– Michael Zryd (York University, Canada)
Hollis Frampton’s Magellan as Virtual Future Metahistory of Film

6.30 - 8.30pm: Wine/buffet Reception (sponsored by Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies), welcome by Professor Flavia Swann, Dean of Arts, Design, Media & Culture

 

Saturday 17th November

9 - 9.45am: Registration, tea/coffee

9.45 - 10.30am:  Keynote: Holly Aylett (Vertigo Magazine and Independent Film Parliament, UK) recorded in conversation with Professor Christine Gledhill, followed by open discussion

10.30 - 12.00: Panel 2: Local News – Global Audiences? (Chair:  Elaine Drainville)

– Gabriel Menotti (Brazil)
Movie Theaters for a World in Progressive Dissolution
– Tobias Hochscherf and James Leggott (Northumbria University, UK)
Digital Realism: Amber Film Collective, Digital Media and the Shooting Magpies Project)
– Leshu Torchin (University of St Andrews, UK)
Citizentube: Focus on Darfur

12 - 1pm: Lunch

1 - 1.45pm: Keynote: Rick Prelinger (archivist, writer & filmmaker, USA)

1.45 - 3.15: Panel 3: Constructing and Using Archives (Chair:  Steven Ball)

– Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Remixing the Archive in the Bit-torrent Age: An Antipodean Perspective
– Anna Motrescu Mayes (University of Bristol, UK)
Images of Empire: Online Amateur Footage and the Re-interpretation of British Colonial Identities
– Heather Norris Nicholson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Virtuous or Vitual Histories: Changing Ways of Working with Archival Film Footage

3.15-3.45: Tea/coffee

3.45-5.45: Discussion Forum:  Have We Produced Unsustainable Resources?
(Funded by the AHRC, with participation by the Arts Council England, the British Film Institute, the Tate, FACT, the British Universities Film and Video Council, the AHRC ICT Methods Network, Cinovid (Germany), LuxOnline (UK), British Artists Film and Video Study Collection, REWIND and others)

7pm:  Conference Dinner, Roker Hotel, Sunderland

 

Sunday 18th November

9.15-10.45: Panel 4: Constructing and Using Archives 2 (Chair:  Julia Knight)

– Steven Ball (University of the Arts, UK), Adam Lockhart (University of Dundee, UK) and Peter Thomas (UK)
Working with artists’ film and video e-resources
– Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute, Ireland)
Interrogating the Archive: Artists’ Cinema in Ireland
– Michael Salvo (Purdue University, USA)
Architecture of Memory: Digital Representation of the Holocaust

10.45-11.15: Tea/coffee

11.15-12.00: Keynote: Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies, USA)

12.00-1.30: Panel 5: New Forms of Presentation (Chair:  Angela Werndly)

– Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland, UK)
Broadcast Yourself
– Samantha Lay (University of Bedfordshire, UK)
The Institutionalisation of the Blogosphere: Commercialisaion, Professionalism and the Case of Film Weblogs
– Christo Wallers (Star and Shadow Cinema, UK)
Mixing the contemporary and traditional in exhibition

12.45-1.15: Closing Plenary Discussion

Refreshments and conference closes

Hosted by the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland and jointly organised with the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project (DJCAD at the University of Dundee), in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.