[eccr] Crash Cultures - Day Event

Crash Cultures

Day Event: 9.30 to 5.30 on Saturday 30th November 2002
At the Watershed Media Centre, Canons Road, Bristol.

The crash has recurred as a central event in the visual cultures of the 
20th century, from the celluloid spectacles of early cinema to the digital 
domain of computer games. Presentations and screenings throughout the day 
will offer multiple perspectives on the significance of these repetitions, 
with time also to discuss your reactions.

Guest speaker is Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History at the University of 
Chicago who will be talking about Spectacles of Destruction in Early 
Cinema. His many books have concentrated on early cinema and the culture of 
modernity from which cinema arose. His concept of the "cinema of 
attractions" relates the development of cinema to other forces than 
storytelling, such as new experiences of space and time in modernity, and 
an emerging modern visual culture.

Other presentations are drawn from a collection of essays: Crash Cultures: 
Modernity, Mediation and the Material, edited by Jane Arthurs and Iain 
Grant (Intellect Books 2002):

Racing Fatalities: White Highway, Black Wreckage. Harjit Khaira (Warwick 
University) and Gerry Carlin (Wolverhampton University).

How It Feels - explores how IT feels. SHaH (Seminar for Hypertheory and 
Heterology, Institute of Cultural Studies, Lancaster University).

Fuel, Metal, Air: a Mutimedia Performance. Michelle Henning and Becky 
Goddard (University of the West of England)

This event is supported by the School of Cultural Studies, in liaison with 
the Centre for Critical Theory, at the University of the West of England.

Ticket price: £15 or £10 for concessions from the Watershed box office 
Tel.0117 927 5100.  Further information about the details of the programme 
can be found at 
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/humanities/intro/conference/CrashCulture.shtml

Please respond to Jane Arthurs - (jane.arthurs /at/ blueyonder.co.uk)



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