MIRL co-director Alanna Thain has organized a major research-creation conference on time and art: Time Forms: The Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience Sept. 18-21 (all events are free and open to the public; register here: timefor.ms) . timefor.ms/2013/ While all thoughts about time are relevant to the study of film, there are a few film and media events of special note: Friday, Sept 20: Performing Temporality MultiMedia Room, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. O 14:15-14:45 Alexandre Larose (filmmaker, Montreal)—screening of Aller/ Retour (2008/2012) and Brouillard (2011) Alexandre Larose is a French-Canadian artist based in Montreal. While completing a bachelor in mechanical engineering in 2001, Larose became interested in «cinematography » as a tool to re-configure temporal experiences. His moving-image practice investigates phenomena of appearance and representation as translated by the media of optics and celluloid. His approach relies on a methodical stripping out of layers embedded in both the live subjects and the technique that translates them into visual artifacts. His work has screened internationally since 2006. Larose is currently pursuing graduate studies in visual arts at Concordia University in Montreal. His research focuses on the spatialization and exhibition of cinematic material. Saturday, Sept 21: Imaging Time Centre Phi, 407 Rue Saint Pierre 14:30-15:45— Nick Rombes (film scholar, University of Detroit, Mercy)--The fourth meaning: Time inside the frame and Nadine Boljkovac (film scholar, Brown University)--Untimely affects: Sensing time and the moving image Nicholas Rombes, a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, is author of Cinema in the Digital Age (Columbia UP) and 10/40/70: Constraint as Liberation in the Era of Digital Film Theory (forthcoming from Zero Books). He is also a contributing editor at Filmmaker Magazine (where he published The Blue Velvet Project) and can be found here. Nadine Boljkovac (PhD, Cambridge 2010) is author of Untimely Affects: Gilles Deleuze and an Ethics of Cinema (EUP 2013), co-editor with Charlie Blake of the volume Deleuze and Affect, and author of works in Deleuze Studies, Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory (‘Remembering Barbara Godard’), Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture, Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text. A former University of Aberdeen Teaching Fellow and University of Edinburgh Postdoctoral Fellow, most recently Nadine was the Carol G. Lederer Postdoctoral Pembroke Fellow at Brown University. Her new book in progress is Beyond Self and Screen: Affective Encounters. amazon/books/dp/0748646442 ; cambridge.academia.edu/NadineBoljkovac 15:45-16:25 — Toni Pape (Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal and postdoctoral fellow, Immediations), The temporal aesthetic of science-fiction Toni Pape is a Ph.D. Candidate and lecturer at the Department of Comparative Literature at Université de Montréal. His doctoral research is dedicated to the aesthetic experience of time in recent TV series and its relation to contemporary politics. Toni investigates TV series which give away their ending at the very beginning and then slowly trace the lead-up to that foretold finale over the course of a season. Examples of such “preemptive narratives,” in which the present is always contaminated by a loop through the future, include Flashforward or Damages. Further research interests include the intersection of television, new media and installation art, philosophies of process and perception, participatory art and activism. Toni is a core member of the SenseLab, a laboratory for research-creation and activist philosophy, where he has co-organized numerous research-creation workshops and events. Recent artist collaborations include work with Erin Manning at the 2012 Sydney Biennale and a Tino Sehgal piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal. 17:15-18:00 — Will Straw (Art History and Communications and Director of McGill Institute for the Study of Canada), Territories of the cinematic night Will Straw is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and Professor within the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, and the co-editor of Circulation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture (2010), Aprehendiendo al delincuente: Crimen y medios en América del norte (2011), and the Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (2001). Dr. Straw is the author of over 100 articles on urban culture, cinema, music and media.
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