October 17, 2008 Vanessa Schwartz (USC), “The Cosmopolitan Film” Additional support for this event came from McGill University Department of Art History and Communication Studies. Vanessa R. Schwartz is Professor of history, art history, and critical studies at the University of Southern California, where she directs the Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies program. A historian...
September 4, 2008 Haidee Wasson (Cinema Studies, Concordia University), “Screens and the New Museum” Abstract: This paper and seminar addressed the questions raised by the convergence of two technologies of display: the film screen and the art museum. By focusing on a historical case study (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY), we examined and discussed...
March 21, 2008 Anne Friedberg (USC) Seminar on her book The Virtual Window (MIT, 2006) Event report: The day after her public talk, Friedberg hosted a smaller seminar for graduate students and faculty, featuring an interactive presentation of The Virtual Window website that accompanies her latest book (http://thevirtualwindow.net/). Friedberg proposed the website as a response...
The cinema screen has an element in immaterial architecture. Light could carry images, light could draw in space. As computers screens and TVs have become flatter the dimensionality of architectural space has transformed. This talk explored the tension between the materials of glass, screens, walls, and the immaterial(s) of the metaverse. No longer reliant on...
The cinema screen has an element in immaterial architecture. Light could carry images, light could draw in space. As computers screens and TVs have become flatter the dimensionality of architectural space has transformed. This talk explores the tension between the materials of glass, screens, walls, and the immaterial(s) of the metaverse. No longer reliant on...
August 17-19, 2006 “Useful Cinema Symposium,” Concordia University Additional support for this event came from a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Aid to Scholarly Workshops Grant.
August 16, 2006 Anna McCarthy (NYU) “Geek-o-sphere: On the Materiality of Televisions and Computers”