Expanded Cinema (2009, April 18-19, Tate Modern)

Professor Yvonne Spielmann gives invited address here…

Expanded Cinema
Activating the Space of Reception

Tony Hill Point Source 1973 © The artist

Friday 17, Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April 2009

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.

Organised by Tate Modern and Central St Martins College of Art and Design (UAL) with support from the AHRC.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£30 (£20 concessions), booking required

For tickets book online
or call 020 7887 8888.

Book Launch – Human Futures, Edited by Andy Miah

Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty

website: http://humanfutures.wordpress.com

30 October 2008
Symposium & Book Launch
10.00-5.00pm

Location: FACT, Liverpool, UK (which is also the location of Picturehouse Cinema Liverpool)

The world around us is changing. What will make the first century of the millennium different to the last? What will we love, how will we live, what will keep us awake at night?

Join artists, scientists, ethicists, futurologists as they explore questions, ideas and propositions that explore our changing environment and the challenges humanity faces in the future.

This conference brings together contributors from FACT’s Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty edited by Andy Miah which features work by George J Annas, Fiona Raby & Anthony Dunne, Norman M Klein and William Sims Bainbridge and Oron Catts.

An updated schedule of the symposium will be added soon, but for more information contact gabrielle.jenks@fact.co.uk

To order the book contact shop@fact.co.uk

Tickets £25.00/20.00 (members and concessions)

Tickets available from 0871 704 2063 or www.picturehouses.co.uk (Liverpool, FACT)

Professor Yvonne Spielmann inaugural lecture (12 Dec, CCA, Glasgow)

Please find below details of Professor Yvonne Spielmann’s inaugural lecture at the University of the West of Scotland.

Inaugural lecture
“Intermediality: Perspectives on Convergent Media”.
Professor Yvonne Spielmann,
Professor of New Media, University of the West of Scotland
Wednesday 12 December, 7.30-8:30pm, refreshments to follow.
CCA (CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

In her lecture, Professor Spielmann will introduce relevant aspects of the histories and concepts of how interrelationships between different media can function. This will involve the discussion of examples from literature, photography, film and in particular electronic film in order to better understand the larger picture of contemporary fusion that seemingly embraces all media. The lecture identifies a variety of strategies in the media arts where we can see how the separation and the borders between film, video and computer generated images are challenged. These processes are relevant to creative practices that combine and converge elements of the analogue and the digital. Thereby, the lecture will also raise the question how innovation and creativity express technologically and/or aesthetically in the increasingly complex and convergent media practices.

Yvonne joins the University from the Braunschweig School of Art where she was Professor of Visual Media, prior to that Yvonne was Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, both Germany. She is author of the German language monographs “Eine Pfütze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde” (1991), “Intermedialität. Das System Peter Greenaway” (1998), and “Video. Das reflexive Medium” (2005).

The Lecture will commence at 7.30 pm and last for around one hour.  A buffet reception will take place immediately after the lecture.

The lecture is free and open to all, but requires confirmation of attendance, as numbers are limited.

For more information and to register your interest call 01292 886260 or email

Margaret Gibb at margaret.gibb@uws.ac.uk
http:///www.uws.ac.uk

Royal College of Art (London 8 Oct, 2007)

Last week, Andy Miah gave another lecture to the Design Interactions programme at the Royal College of Art. This time, the focus was on Robot Ethics and his presentation dealt with aspects of prosthesis, robotics and artificial life. Also speaking that day was the renowned science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.

Is there a human right to be superhuman?

Last week, Dr Andy Miah spoke at Stanford University Law School on the subject of posthumanism, human enhancement and human rights. The conference received considerable media attention and Dr Miah was interviewed by MSNBC for an article about his work on this subject. The meeting was co-organised by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies where Dr Miah is currently a fellow for Visions of Utopia and Dystopia.

Links

Andy Miah's Flickr page for the conference