CONFERENCE PAPERS DL 1st Feb

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

¡Documentary Now! Dates: Wednesday-Thursday 19-20 June 2013

Conference Location: UCL, Central London

¡Documentary Now! is back and is continuing its collaboration with Open City Docs Fest. The theme for this year’s conference is “Malleability”: Whether digital, animated, acted or re-enacted, fragmented, uploaded, mashed up, rubbed-up against fiction, or otherwise manipulated, documentary is undergoing momentous changes: some deepen or emphasize already developed techniques or approaches, and others fundamentally challenge them. Documentary has morphed into the galleries and online, has fragmented non-linearly, and been tampered with interactively. This year’s conference especially invites papers and presentations that consider ways in which the documentary form is being continuously recast. As always, all good proposals on any topic related to the documentary, broadly conceived, will be considered. 

If you would like to give a 20 minute paper/presentation at the conference OR send proposals for themed panels of 3-4 people, please send proposals (including 250-300 word abstracts of papers) to: docnowconference@gmail.com

The deadline for proposals is Friday, 1 February 2013

There is no fee for attendance but registration is required.

¡Documentary Now! has been bringing together scholars, filmmakers, students, and interested members of the public since 2007 to discuss current trends in documentary film, from the return of documentary as a theatrical box office phenomenon, to broadcast television, the web, and beyond. It explores questions of industry, audience, aesthetics, political engagement, documentary and the mainstream media, and much more. What’s new in documentary? Where is documentary headed? This year’s conference organiser is Alisa Lebow of Brunel University. 

¡Documentary Now! is made possible with support of Brunel University, UCL, Open City Docs Fest & Lincoln University.

The American Waitress: (Re)producing the Icon - A performative presentation by Heidi Hasbrouck

“Can I getcha some coffee with that?”

Placing myself as the central figure in my fieldwork, I set out to address the political economy of the iconography of the American Diner waitress and how it produces and reproduces her affective, precarious labour.  Through a combination of performance, lecture and documentary footage I will relate, play, recreate, critique and affect my audience/customers' understanding of the icon and our labour.  I aim to reveal the feedback loop that exists between the iconography and narrative associated with the affective labour of waitressing and how that then feeds back into waitress' identity formation. Through integrating performance and documentary filmmaking into my research I attempt to affect the narrative of the icon with new sticky ideas, reveal it's power and find ways of re-appropriating its power back into the hands of the workers from which it demands.

Heidi Hasbrouck - BIO

Along with currently being a PhD candidate at Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies, Heidi Hasbrouck is a practicing filmmaker, performer and lecturer in London.  Heidi moved to London after years of precarious work in the restaurant industry in the US to pursue an MA in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths and somehow never left.  Her research primarily pulls from a feminist Marxist tradition particularly American, British and Italian feminist critiques of work, feminine labour, precarious labour, and affective labour.  Her research interests also include her background in media including identity politics, media representations and nostalgia in American culture.

The next meeting is scheduled to the 11th January 2013 when Amanda McDowell will be presenting.    

http://soundcloud.com/audiovisualphd/tas008-0508

Sudo Document

A Lecture series curated by Modern Language experiment. Sat 8th & Sun 9th Dec 2012 At Angus-Hughes Gallery!

SUNDAY 9TH DECEMBER 1 - 2.30PM
COLIN PERRY
Is a freelance art writer based in London, UK. Colin writes reviews and profiles for Art Monthly, Frieze, ArtReview, Art in America, Modern Painters, Catalogue magazine, MAP, and catalogue texts. Currently he is working part-time as an editor at Phaidon and has presented talks with artists and academics, organised film screenings, and collaborated with artists on texts and performances. For his lecture Colin will be discussing: 

Into the mainstream: Experimental film and video on TV

SUNDAY 9TH DECEMBER 3 - 4.30PM
JON CAIRNS
Is Co-ordinator of Critical Studies for BA Fine Art at Central St. Martins. Jon's work in the last few years has engaged with queer historiography and the ambivalence of interpretation, hinging on the mobile relationships between photography and performance, and between ‘fact’ and ‘fiction’. For his lecture Jon will be discussing:

Feeling Your Way: art, affect and value in times of recession

check for more details:
http://www.angus-hughes.com/Sudo-Document

MIRAJ Call for Papers DL Jan 13th

For issue 2.2, The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) features section will include themed articles on 'Illusion'.

They welcome submissions that address the broad resonances of this theme in artists' moving image, including but not limited to: the politics of anti-illusionism, its history, and its contemporary repercussions; ideology as illusion; magic and the moving image; special effects; illusionism and virtuality; computer-generated imagery; the relevance of historical and contemporary theoretical conceptions of illusion to experimental practices; the unreliability of vision.
 
All submissions should be in English and adhere to the Intellect Style Guide (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/page/index,name=journalstyleguide/).
 
Please submit completed manuscripts only. Send all contributions and proposals by e-mail in DOC or RTF format to the Editorial Assistant: miraj@arts.ac.uk

Check http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=207/view,page=2/

for outlines of what they are looking for.

Graduate Symposium: Theorising Otherness, 23 April 2012

The AVPhD Group participated in the Goldsmiths Graduate Symposium, 2012


AVPhD Group
Chair: Tony Dowmunt

RHB 139
3.30pm- 4.3opm

Tom Tlalim
What is that, being a border? Speculating sonic space, in-between existence
and affiliation

Heidi Hasbrouck
“Would you like any more coffee or just the check?”  The Political Economy
of the American Waitress as Icon

RHB 138
4.30pm- 6.30pm
Sabine El-Chaama
Picturing live war: frame, language, and technology

Whitehead Building Foyer
6.30pm- 7.30pm
Christian Nyampeta
Musical performance

Practice Theory Schism? A group discussion

A discussion on the relationship of art and theory in our work. 

The discussion was led by Tom Tlalim who gave a short introduction of the texts, and screened his film 'Being a Border | 5.11.75'.
 
'Being a Border | 5.11.75' uses a scene from a film by Tlalim's father (Asher Tlalim) titled 'Jerusalem 22.4.75'. In the original work, his father and mother are filmed on set, just days before his birth, futilely trying to reach some form of communication, while his father is the director and his mother acting as a war widow. Tom Tlalim employs digital manipulations on the images and sound in order to undo some of the the signifying content of the family archive. He uses methods such as removing spoken voices and leaving only translation, erasing and cutting up the image, deleting the parents' silhouettes, as well as collapsing and juxtaposing materials from different points in the film, so that they tell the story about the conflict in their relationship, which becomes a model for negotiation of practice and theory.

Reading material were:
- 'Art and Philosophy' (1st chapter in Badiou's Handbook of Inaesthetics)
http://tinyurl.com/dxeehor
- 'A Whited Sepulchre: Autobiographical film/video as practise/research' by Tony Dowmunt
http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/2129/
- 'The 3rd Mind' by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin
http://tinyurl.com/bug2ntu

Guiding questions:
- What is the relationship between practice and theory in your own PhD work?
- Do you write about your art practice, or rather is your practice is driven or motivated by the writing?
- Or, do you separate the theoretical part from the practice component?
- Or how do you see the dialogue between the practise and theory in your PhD. "

* This is a recording of the discussion part only. unfortunately, the introduction file was corrupted.
** The texts can be obtained online, from the authors or from library resources, not attaching for copyright reasons.
*** This session took place on the 9th of November.
**** The next meeting will be on the 7th of December.