Schedule |
Friday, March 30th |
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3:15 |
Session 1 |
Cathedral of Learning (CL) 232
Words of Welcome |
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3:30-5:00 |
Post-Neo-Avant-Garde: The New Visual Artists |
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Alice Kuzniar |
The Post-Pop Hauntings of Bjørn Melhus |
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Rembert Hüser |
QWERTY Cinema: Christoph Girardet/Matthias Mueller's The Phoenix Tapes (1997) |
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5:30-6:30 |
Session 2 |
CL 232 |
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Thomas Elsaesser |
The Future of “Art” and “Work” in the Age of Vision Machines: Harun Farocki |
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Reception |
Cathedral of Learning 501 |
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Saturday, March 31st |
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8:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
CL 501 |
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9:00-10:30 |
Session 3 |
CL 232 |
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The Post-Cinematic and the Avant-Garde |
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Randall Halle |
Tendency/Event/Movement: Social Impact and Pipilotti Rist |
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Richard Langston |
Schlingensief’s Peep-Show: Post-Cinematic Spectacles and the Public Space of History |
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Coffee |
CL 501 |
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11-12:30 |
Session 4 |
CL 232 |
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Established Filmmakers and the Continuing Significance of the Avant-Garde |
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Phillip Watts |
Straub and Huillet and the Noise of Democracy |
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Lucy Fischer |
The Remains of the Day: Agnès Varda, The Gleaners and the Art of Salvage |
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Lunch |
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2:00-3:30 |
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CL 232 |
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Popular Culture and the Avant-Garde |
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Marcia Landy |
The Argento Syndrome and the Fourth Dimension |
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Adam Lowenstein |
Cinema, Gaming, Interactivity: Between eXistenZ and Un Chien Andalou |
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Coffee |
CL 501 |
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4-5:30 |
Session 5 |
CL 232 |
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After the Cold War: Avant-Garde and (Post)Socialism |
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Vladimir Padunov |
From Experiment to Mainstream: Parallel Cinema and Necrorealism, 1984-2007 |
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Reinhild Steingröver |
From Mainstream to Experiment: Experimental Film at DEFA around German Unification |
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Refreshments |
CL 501 |
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6:00-7:00 |
Session 6 |
CL 232 |
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Reflections on the Avant-Garde: A Conversation with Filmmaker Birgit Hein |