[rohrpost] Tagung: Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations

[André Wendler]

Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations
Kinematographische Objekte: Dinge und Operationen
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International Conference of the Junior Fellow Program
»Theory and History of Cinematographic Objects«
July 11-13, 2012, IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
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Films are assemblages of things: suitcases, revolvers, cars, shower
curtains, bones that turn into spaceships within a split second. Insofar as
these »things« make their peculiar appearance on film, they can be called
cinematographic objects. The complexity of cinematographic objects resides
in the fact that their very definition is always implicated in an
ever-evolving network of associations with: 1) things on film, 2) the
materiality of filmic images, and 3) the mechanical and operational
relationships between the apparatuses necessary for their production (i.e.
cameras, editing equipment, projectors, microphones, etc.)

Following the »Cinematographic Objects« workshop in 2011, the conference
»Cinematographic Objects II: Things and Operations« continues to negotiate
the relations between artifact and operation. On the one hand, it seeks to
closely interrogate the specificities of film and cinema according to film
and media theoretical concerns with the cinematographic operations of
object construction, as well as the peculiar nature and properties of
things objects, and artifacts in film. And on the other hand, it also
welcomes discourses on the transformations and migrations of things between
film and other disciplines and areas of study such as art history, natural
sciences, politics, and the everyday.

www.ikkm-weimar.de/thingsandoperations

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Timetable

Wednesday, July 11

19h-20:30h
Lorenz Engell (IKKM Weimar): On Objects in Series: Clocks and MAD MEN


Thursday, July 12

9.30h
Volker Pantenburg (IKKM Weimar): Introduction

OBJECT AND EVENT
10h-11h
Francesco Casetti (Yale University): On the Screen: Event or Object?

11h-11.30h
Coffee

PROPS AND HISTORY
11.30h-12.30h
Sabine Hake (University of Texas, Austin): On the Lives of Objects

12.30-13.30h
Marcus Becker (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): Römisches Wasser. Zur
Kinematographie des Aquädukts

13.30-15h
Lunch

BODY AND ANIMATION
15h-16h
Lesley Stern (UC San Diego): »It once was fire«: this thing that once was a
body

16h-17h
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London): The Peculiar Ecstasy of the
Animated Object

17h-17.30h
Coffee

LABORATORY AND PROJECTION
17.30h-18.30h
Jimena Canales, Joana Pimenta, Lindsey Lodhie (Harvard University): Desired
Machines


Friday, July 13

ROUND AND ROUND
9.30h-10.30h
Thomas Elsaesser (Yale University): Fairgrounds, Carousels and Ferrara
Frescoes

10.30h-10.45h
Coffee

CAMERA AND MOVEMENT
10.45h-11.45h
Kenneth White (Stanford University): On the Matter of Snow

11.45h-12.45h
Rosa John (Universität Wien): Kamera // Bolex

12.45h-13.30h
Snacks

IMAGE AND LOCATION
13.30h-14.30h
Annette Urban (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Eine Ding-Grammatik des Films als
Bilder-Inventar. John Baldessari und John Stezaker

14.30h-15.30h
Ulrike Hanstein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Rückprojektionen. Bilder des
Schauplatzes und Schauplätze des Bildes

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Presentations in English or German. The conference is open to the public.
No fees and no registration required.

Organized and moderated by: Marius Böttcher, Maeve Connolly, Dennis Göttel,
Friederike Horstmann, Maria Imhof, Jeffrey Kirkwood, Jan Philip Müller,
Volker Pantenburg,
Maya Vinokour, Linda Waack, Susanne Wagner, Regina Wuzella.

Conceptualized in the frameworks of: Junior Fellow Program "Theory and
History of Cinematographic Objects" at the Internationales Kolleg für
Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and
the Free State of Thuringia.


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Diplom-Kulturwissenschaftler (Medien)
André Wendler
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am
Internationalen Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Cranachstraße 47
99421 Weimar

Telefon +49 36 43 58 40 17
www.ikkm-weimar.de/wendler