Expanded Cinema (2009, April 18-19, Tate Modern)
March 10, 2009Professor Yvonne Spielmann gives invited address here…
Expanded Cinema
Activating the Space of Reception
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Tony Hill
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This conference presents a major critical appraisal of Expanded Cinema. Coined in the mid-1960s by Stan Vanderbeek, but with its origins in the experiments of early twentieth Century avant-garde filmmaking, media-technologies and performance art, the term Expanded Cinema identifies a film and video practice which activates the live context of watching, transforming cinema’s historical and cultural ‘architectures of reception’ into sites of cinematic experience that are heterogeneous, performative and non-determined.
Works identified as Expanded Cinema often open up questions surrounding the spectator’s construction of time/space relations, activating the spaces of cinema and narrative as well as other contexts of media reception. In doing so it offers an alternative and challenging perspective on filmmaking, visual arts practices and the narratives of social space, everyday life and cultural communication.
Speakers include Mark Barlett, Eugeni Bonet, Cecile Chich, Noam Elcott, Cate Elwes, Valie Export, Anja Gossens, Chrissie Iles, Cindy Keefer, Ji-Hoon Kim, Liz Kotz, Mike Leggett, Malcolm Le Grice, Chris Meigh-Andrews. Stephen Partridge, William Raban, Lucy Reynolds, Tony Sinden, Yvonne Spielmann, Jonathan Walley, Chris Welsby, Duncan White, Peter Weibel and Maxa Zoller.
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