Future Histories of the Moving Image: Nov 16-18, 2007

FUTURE HISTORIES OF THE MOVING IMAGE
16-18 November 2007
University of Sunderland

As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the ature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has
changed dramatically. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online. This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices. It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating all areas of our moving image culture.

For booking form, travel and accommodation information, please go to: myblogs.sunderland.ac.uk/blogs/futurehistories/

(bookings for conference meal required by 17 October)

Friday 16th

12-3.45pm Registration

3.45pm Conference Welcome: Professor John Storey
(Director of the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies,
University of Sunderland)

4pm Keynote: Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, USA)

4.45pm Panel 1: Cinema as Database

- Pat Brereton (Dublin City University, Ireland)

The Influence of Database Logic on Film Structure: A Reading of Science
Fiction as Smart Film - Spielberg's AI and Minority Report

- Aimeé Mitchell (York University, Canada)

Chris Marker: The Electronic Texture of Memory

- Michael Zryd (York University, Canada)

Hollis Frampton's Magellan as Virtual Future Metahistory of Film

6.30-8.30pm Wine/buffet Reception (sponsored by Convergence:
The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies),
welcome by Professor Flavia Swann, Dean of Arts, Design, Media & Culture

Saturday 17th

9-9.45am Registration, tea/coffee

9.45-10.30am Keynote: Holly Aylett (Vertigo Magazine and
Independent Film Parliament, UK)

10.30-12.00 Panel 2: Local News - Global Audiences?

- Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Adnan Hadzi (Goldsmiths College, UK)

Deptford TV: Exploring Strategies of Sharing

- Tobias Hochscherf and James Leggott (Northumbria University, UK)

Digital Realism: The Amber Film Collective, Digital Media and

the Shooting Magpies Project)

- Leshu Torchin (University of St Andrews, UK)

Citizentube: Focus on Darfur

12-1pm Lunch

1-1.45pm Keynote: Rick Prelinger (archivist, writer &
filmmaker, USA)

1.45-3.15 Panel 3: Constructing and Using Archives 1

- Ross Harley (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Remixing the Archive in the Bit-torrent Age: An Antipodean Perspective

- Anna Motrescu Mayes (University of Bristol, UK)

Images of Empire: Online Amateur Footage and the Re-interpretation of
British Colonial Identities

- Heather Norris Nicholson (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Virtuous or Virtual Histories: Changing Ways of Working with Archival
Film Footage

3.15-3.45 Tea/coffee

3.45-5.45 Discussion Forum: Have We Produced Unsustainable
Resources?

(Funded by the AHRC, with participation by the Arts Council England, the
British Film Institute, the Tate, FACT, the British Universities Film
and Video Council, the AHRC ICT Methods Network, Montevideo
(Netherlands), Cinovid (Germany), LuxOnline (UK), British Artists Film
and Video Study Collection, REWIND and others)
7pm Conference Dinner

Sunday 18th

9.15-10.45 Panel 4: Constructing and Using Archives 2

- Steven Ball (University of the Arts, UK), Stephen Partridge
(University of Dundee, UK) and Peter Thomas (UK)

Working with artists' film and video e-resources

- Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute, Ireland)

Interrogating the Archive: Artists' Cinema in Ireland

- Michael Salvo (Purdue University, USA)

Architecture of Memory: Digital Representation of the Holocaust

10.45-11.15 Tea/coffee
11.15-12.00 Keynote: Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies, USA)

12.00-1.30 Panel 5: New Forms of Presentation

- Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland, UK)

Broadcast Yourself

- Samantha Lay (University of Bedfordshire, UK)

The Institutionalisation of the Blogosphere: Commercialisaion,

Professionalism and the Case of Film Weblogs)

- Christo Wallers (Star and Shadow Cinema, UK)

Mixing the contemporary and traditional in exhibition

Refreshments and conference closes

Future Histories of the Moving Image is hosted by the Centre for
Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland
and jointly organised with the British Artists' Film and Video Study
Collection (University of the Arts) and the Visual Research Centre
REWIND project (DJCAD at the University of Dundee), in collaboration
with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies.

For further information/inquiries, please contact
futurehistories@sunderland.ac.uk