{"id":2132,"date":"2009-06-18T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-06-18T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T01:49:00","slug":"close-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkmital.com\/home\/close-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOSE-UP 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

An event organized by the new Center for Film, Performance, and Media Arts (CFPMA) was held today in Edinburgh University discussing recent topics in… film, performance, and media arts.<\/p>\n

It was an interesting group of people that strangely somehow all had much in common. I had the fortune of presenting my research as it relates to DIEM in the place of Tim J. Smith.<\/p>\n

The schedule:<\/p>\n

Close-Up 2: Schedule <\/strong> for Wednesday 17<\/strong>th<\/strong><\/sup> June 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

10<\/strong>am<\/strong> coffee and tech checks <\/strong>(G.11, William Robertson Building)<\/p>\n

10.30 Welcome<\/strong>, Annette Davison (Music, ACE and Director, Cfpma), Martine Beugnet (LLC, Convener of Film Studies)<\/p>\n

Who is who, where is what? People and resources for which the Cfpma will provide a point of convergence. <\/em><\/p>\n

11am Individual Presentations<\/strong> (MAX 10 mins each): <\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Lawrence (African Studies, SSPS) \u2014 Difficult satire under austerity: the films of Sissako and Amoussou<\/p>\n

Martine Beugnet (Film, LLC) \u2014 \u201cThe Wounded Screen\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Williams (Architecture, ACE) \u2014 \u201cThe Modernist City on Film\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Cairns (Architecture, ACE) \u2014 \u201cCultures of Legibility: Emergent Urban Landscapes in Southeast Asia\u201d<\/p>\n

Simon Frith and Annette Davison (Music, ACE) \u2014 \u201cThe Role of Cinemas in the History of Live Music\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Fogarty (Music, ACE) \u2014 \u201cThe New Silent Cinema in Live\u201d<\/p>\n

Yoko Matsumoto-Sturt (Asian Studies, LLC) \u2014 \u201cJapanese language and culture in J-pop\u201d<\/p>\n

Kriss Ravetto (Film, LLC) \u2014 \u201cSpectres of the Digital\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Laurier (Geosciences) \u2014 \u201cAgreements in Editing\u201d<\/p>\n

Parag Mital (Visual Cognition Lab, PPLS) \u2014 \u201cDynamic Images and Eye Movements\u201d<\/p>\n

Smita Kheria (Law) \u2014 \u201cCopyright law and new media art<\/p>\n

Lunch: 1-2pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

2pm \u2013 joint presentations <\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Coyne, Penny Travlou, Mark Wright (ACE, ECA, and Informatics) \u2014 \u201cEmerging forms of digital media and the democratization of urban discourse\u201d<\/p>\n

Jolyon Mitchell, Alina Birzache, Milja Radovic, Yasmin Fedda (Divinity) \u2014 \u201cSeeing Through Film, Religion and Ethics<\/p>\n

3pm COFFEE<\/strong><\/p>\n

3.30pm DISCUSSION FORUM 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cross-Subject\/School \/Institution teaching and research supervision: current\/future plans<\/p>\n

Chair: Kriss Ravetto<\/p>\n

With Martine Beugnet, Sarah Colvin, John Lee, Fiona Littleton, Martine Pierquin<\/p>\n

4pm INFO and UPDATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: Anne-Sofie Laegran<\/p>\n

Cfpma Web Presence: Annette Davison<\/p>\n

\u2018Film in the Public Space\u2019 and the Roberts Fund: Martine Beugnet<\/p>\n

4.20pm DISCUSSION FORUM 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The future of the Cfpma.<\/p>\n

Chair: Annette and Martine<\/p>\n

What could the Centre usefully do\/encourage to support its members and foster research collaboration?<\/p>\n

5pm BREAK \u2013 and move to David Hume Tower conference room<\/strong><\/p>\n

5.15pm Professor Tim Lenoir, CONTEMPLATING SINGULARITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cinet (Cinema Network) talk, followed by wine reception and launch of CFPMA<\/p>\n

The talk explores how the postbiological and posthuman future has haunted cultural studies of technoscience for two decades. Concern (and in some quarters enthusiasm) that contemporary technoscience is on a path leading beyond simple human biological improvements and prosthetic enhancements to a complete human makeover has been sustained by the exponential growth in power and capability of computer technology since the early 1990s. The deeper fear is that somehow digital code and computer-mediated communications are getting under our skin, and in the process we are being transformed.<\/p>\n

Tim Lenoir is the Kimberly Jenkins Chair for New Technologies and Society at Duke University. He has published several books and articles on the history of biomedical science from the nineteenth century to the present. His more recent work has focused on the introduction of computers into biomedical research from the early 1960s to the present, particularly the development of computer graphics, medical visualization technology, the development of virtual reality and its applications in surgery and other fields. Lenoir has also been engaged in constructing online digital libraries for a number of projects, including an archive on the history of Silicon Valley. Two recent projects include a web documentary project to document the history of bioinformatics funded by the Bern Dibner and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, and How They Got Game<\/em>, a history of interactive simulation and video games. With economists Nathan Rosenberg, Henry Rowen, and Brent Goldfarb he has just completed a collaborative study for Stanford University on Stanford’s historical relationship to Silicon Valley entitled, Inventing the Entrepreneurial Region: Stanford and the Co-Evolution of Silicon Valley<\/em>. In support of these projects, Lenoir has developed software tools for interactive web-based collaboration. In this connection he is currently engaged with colleagues at UC Santa Barbara in developing the NSF-supported Center for Nanotechnology in Society, where he contributes to the effort to document the history, societal, and ethical implications of bionanotechnology.<\/p>\n

There were those interested in the slides of my presentation and I thought to include it online:<\/p>\n

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The videos shown in the slides are available online on our Vimeo and Youtube accounts:<\/p>\n

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Eye movments during the Video Republic<\/a> from VisCogEdinburgh<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eye movements during the Wimbeldon Macenroe-Bjorn Borg match<\/a> from VisCogEdinburgh<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eye Movements during 50 People 1 Question (Brooklyn)<\/a> from VisCogEdinburgh<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See many more here<\/a> and here<\/a> (these are constantly being updated with more videos).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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