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Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner

Recently the School of English & Media Studies was lucky enough to host the inspirational scholar who brought cultural studies to the Southern Hemisphere and has shaped its evolution on a global scale ever since, Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner. During his visit Graeme provided staff with advice and mentoring, as well as delivering a series of talks on the future of the humanities and the future of the media. Read Bachelor of Communication student Rhiannon Davies’ blog post about his Future of the Humanities talk here: http://www.esocsci.org.nz/emeritus-professor-graeme-turner-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences-and-their-place-in-the-corporatisation-of-universities/

Thank you to the WH Oliver Humanities Research Academy for supporting Prof. Turner’s visit.

All scholars and practitioners interested in film and media are welcome to attend the Loops and Splices symposium on changing media technologies on Friday 1 August at Victoria University of Wellington.

The symposium has been organised by Media Studies lecturers Radha O’Meara and Alex Bevan with colleagues from Victoria University. It will feature a keynote presentation by Professor Ian Christie from University of London’s Birkbeck College on the history of 3D in photography and film, as well as presentations by Massey Media Studies lecturers Kevin Glynn, Sy Taffel and Allen Meek.

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fhss/about/events/symposium-loops-and-splices-changing-media-technologies

Attendance is free, but attendees should register by emailing Kathleen Kuehn before the end of July:
Kathleen.Kuehn@vuw.ac.nz

Symposium Programme

Schedule: 1 August 2014 Hunter Council Chamber, Hunter Building, Victoria University of Wellington

9.30-10.30am OpeningPlenary

Chair:MiriamRoss

ProfessorIanChristie(BirkbeckCollege)

“Denying depth: uncovering the hidden history of 3D in photography and film”

10.45-12.15 PanelOne:Archaeologies,Bodies,NewTechnologies

Chair:KathleenKuehn

AllanCameron(Auckland),“Facing the Glitch: Abstraction, Abjection,and the DigitalFace”

JulieCupples(Edinburgh)andKevinGlynn(Massey),“Technologies of Indigeneity: Māori Television and Convergence Culture”

MaxSchleser(Massey),“A Decade of Mobile Moving-Image Practice”

SyTaffel(Massey),“Arch/Ecologies of E-Waste”

1.30-3.00pm PanelTwo:AmateurPracticesandEverydayLife

Chair:RadhaO’Meara

RosinaHickman(Victoria),“A pastora lparadise?: Landscap eand early amateur filmmaking in New Zealand”

O. RipekaMercier(Victoria),“Screen(ed) Culture in the 48 Hour Film Competition”

MinetteHillyer(Victoria),“Formulas for the Interior: Homemovies, television and the practice of real life in public”

DamionSturm(Waikato),“Smashing and bashing as affective commodity-spectacle? Televisual technologies in the Australian T20 Cricket Big Bash League”

3.15-4.45pm PanelThree:MediaLoops,AestheticHistories

Chair:MichelleMenzies

AllenMeek(Massey),“Testimony and the chronophotographic gesture”

MichaelDaubs(Victoria),“What’s New is Past: Flash Animation and Cartoon History”

KirstenMoanaThompson(Victoria),“’Now Isn’t Simply Now’: A Single Man and the Color Image”

LeonGurevitch(Victoria),“Cinema Designed: Visual Effects Software and the Emergence of Design”

4.45D5.15pm ClosingPlenaryPanel

Chair:KirstenThompson

Ian Christie and OrganizingCommittee

The symposium committee would like to thank

Adam Art Gallery, New Zealand Film Archive, School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, School of English and Media Studies at Massey University, and the Visual Culture Group of Victoria for generously supporting the Loops+Splices symposium.

Symposium Organising Committee

ProfessorKirstenThompson:Kirsten.Thompson@vuw.ac.nz DrMiriamRoss:Miriam.Ross@vuw.ac.nz

DrKathleenKuehn:Kathleen.Kuehn@vuw.ac.nz DrAlexBevan:A.L.Bevan@massey.ac.nz

DrRadhaO’Meara:R.OMeara@massey.ac.nz MichelleMenzies:michelle.menzies@gmail.com

Ian Christie (Birkbeck College,University of London)

Denying depth:uncovering the hidden history of 3D in photography and film

If stereoscopy has been a more significant and continuous presence in modern imaging media than is conventionally recognised, why has it been consistently marginalised by photographic and film historians? After its huge popularity in the second half of the 19th century, there were expectations that stereo moving pictures would follow. Yet even after practical display systems emerged in the 1930s, resistance has continued,often fuelled by a mixture of economic and psycho-aesthetic justification.What’s the problem?

Ian Christie is Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a curator and broadcaster. He wrote and co-produced a BBC TV series The Last Machine, presented by Terry Gilliam, in 1994; and the exhibitions he has worked on include Eisenstein: His Life and Art (1988), Spellbound:ArtandFilm (1996) and Modernism:Designing a New World (2006). A Fellow of the British Academy and Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University in 2006, with a lecture series entitled ‘Cinema Has Not yet Been Invented’, he is especially interested in mediaecology and archaeology, and in audiences-the subject of his most recent book.

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