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[ecrea] Autumn 2016 REFRAME publications
Tue Oct 18 19:40:41 GMT 2016
I am happy to present, below, the latest seasonal roundup of newly
published open access scholarly items at the REFRAME digital platform,
hosted by the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.
Links to all the following items are available from:
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/blog/2016/10/16/autumn-2016-round-up/
(please copy and paste the link into your browser)
SUMMARY
1 NEW eBook: REFRAME Books presents The Arclight Guidebook to
Media History and the Digital Humanities
2 NEW eBook: REFRAME Books presents Proceedings of the 2016
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIVE INTERFACES
3 POST-CINEMA: THEORIZING 21st-CENTURY FILM – eBook now
available as an open access PDF at REFRAME Books;
4 NEW website: CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL STUDIES NETWORK
5 NEW website: CULTURES OF SOUND AND A WAR WITHOUT END
6 New SEQUENCE: About Silence – first issue by Liz Greene
7 New videos in TALKS@MFM – Our continuing series of video
recordings of research seminars and masterclasses;
8 Reframing Activism, Mediático, Reframing Psychoanalysis, The
Audiovisual Essay and Global Queer Cinema updates.
9 Call for Proposals: Poetics and Politics of Documentary
Research Symposium 2017
REFRAME‘s latest round up of open access publications and research
website and project launches is given below.
1 NEW eBook: REFRAME Books presents */The Arclight Guidebook to
Media History and the Digital Humanities/*
In June 2016, REFRAME Books published /The Arclight Guidebook to Media
History and the Digital Humanities/, edited by Charles R. Acland and
Eric Hoyt – a cutting edge collection of work both surveying what media
historians are doing with digital tools and charting a course for how
the field of media history might move forward in an ongoing dialogue
with the digital humanities.
2. NEW eBook: REFRAME Books presents */Proceedings of the 2016
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIVE INTERFACES/*
In October 2016, REFRAME Books co-published (with the Experimental Music
Technologies (EMuTe) Lab, University of Sussex) the /Proceedings of the
2016 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIVE INTERFACES/. Edited by Thor
Magnusson, Chris Kiefer and Sam Duffy
The proceedings of the Live Interfaces conference
(http://www.liveinterfaces.org) are the outcome of a five-day gathering
at the University of Sussex’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
in June 2016. The biennial ICLI conference is interdisciplinary and
practice-based, unique in that it focuses on the role of performance
interfaces across all of the performing arts. This year it became clear
that ICLI has become an established platform for people operating in
diverse sections of the arts to meet and discuss the embodied use of
technology in live performance. With a focus on practice, the conference
emphasised the role of performances, workshops and installations as well
as papers and posters.
With submissions from musicians, dancers, roboticists, brain scientists,
visual artists, philosophers, animators, sculpturists, and more, the
proceedings illustrate the range of activities encompassed by this
lively platform for knowledge exchange and new performance practices.
The proceedings were peer reviewed and include long and short papers,
doctoral colloquium papers, performance installation and workshop
descriptions, as well as some documentation of the event itself. Much of
the conference was also filmed and can be found on this YouTube channel.
3. */POST-CINEMA: THEORIZING 21st-CENTURY FILM/*, a major 2016 open
access edited collection from REFRAME Books is now available in a
collected PDF!
The major scholarly collection edited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda,
and published by REFRAME’s open access ebook imprint is now available in
complete PDF versions. The book appeared first in an easily navigable
web and mobile browser format from which chapter PDFs may be generated
and saved (see the foot of each entry). Online at:
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/post-cinema/.
Endorsement by Tanya Horeck, Reader in Film, Media, and Culture, Anglia
Ruskin University:
/Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film /is an intellectually
exciting and important book. Editors Shane Denson and Julia Leyda have
assembled an extraordinary range of notable contributors with the aim to
open up a critical conversation on the very notion of the post-cinematic
– something they achieve in a most novel and engaging way. Through
essays and roundtable discussions, Post-Cinema formulates fresh and
nuanced questions about the consumption and spectatorship of
post-millennial film and other media as they circulate through
contemporary digital media ecologies. As is fitting given its subject
matter of changing media formats, the design and layout of this book –
with its open access digitality and its collaborative dialogues – is as
relevant and pioneering as its content. Inviting us to rethink received
ideas about how 21st-century media reshape “new forms of sensibility,”
/Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film/ is critically imperative
reading for anyone interested in ongoing vital transformations in moving
image media.
/Contributors include: Caetlin Benson-Allott, Paul Bowman, Felix
Brinker, Kristopher L. Cannon, Francesco Casetti, Steen Christiansen,
Elena del Río, Rosalind Galt, Therese Grisham, Richard Grusin, Leon
Gurevitch, Mark B. N. Hansen, Bruce Isaacs, Adrian Ivakhiv, Kylie
Jarrett, Selmin Kara, Patricia MacCormack, Lev Manovich, Ruth Mayer,
Michael O’Rourke, Patricia Pisters, Alessandra Raengo, David Rambo,
Nicholas Rombes, Sergi Sánchez, Karin Sellberg, Steven Shaviro, Michael
Loren Siegel, Vivian Sobchack, Billy Stevenson, Andreas Sudmann./
//
4. NEW website: CHINESE FILM FESTIVAL STUDIES NETWORK
REFRAME is now hosting the archived website of the AHRC-funded CHINESE
FILM FESTIVAL STUDIES NETWORK This research network brings together
scholars in the UK, China, other parts of Asia, Europe and the USA who
are working on film festivals in Chinese-language territories and
cultures (including the People’s Republic, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and
elsewhere): http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/chinesefilmfeststudies/
The website collects materials relevant to Chinese Film Festival
Studies, including reports on network events, bibliographies, lists of
and reports on film festivals, and much more.
5. NEW website: CULTURES OF SOUND AND A WAR WITHOUT END
A new REFRAME website housing video recordings of a symposium held on
June 2, 2015, at the Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, and
sponsored by Public Culture Hub and Sussex Centre for Culture Studies
(SCCS):
http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/culturesofsound/
Marking the 13th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Barack Obama
announced the latest phase of the war without end – a bombing campaign
of unspecified duration that would take in both Syria and Iraq. Weeks
later they were joined by the British Armed Forces.
Under the sign of ‘terror’, this unending war has shaped the places that
have been bombed and places that have done the bombing. The estimated
500,000 dead in Iraq and what Claire Alexander has referred to as “the
rise and rise” anti-Muslim racism in Britain are but two examples of
this. However, other dimensions of cultural life have also changed,
including the cultures and circuits of sound.
Cultures of sound have long been intertwined with cultures of war. The
vocoder, originally developed to disguise military communications, found
its way into popular culture through the work of Moog, Kraftwerk,
Grandmaster Flash, Stevie Wonder, 2Pac and Daft Punk among others. In
aerially assaulted settlements across the Middle-East and Asia, the
sound of bombing, inseparable from everyday life, is sold as
entertainment – with games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops earning over
$1 Billion in worldwide sales.
In the development of weapons, sound (and music) forms part of the US
repertoire of “advanced interrogation” (or torture) techniques, while in
the UK’s urban wars Compound Security produces the high-frequency
Mosquito device to exclude young people from public space; a device
re-invented by young people as the Teen Buzz – a downloadable,
Bluetooth-able, sound file that produces a continuous high-pitched sound
to target adult authority.
War is known about through sounds. Through soundscape of the Blitz or
Operation Protective Edge the ear is trained. Sounds, or their absence,
trigger fear, trauma and relief. War, sound and memory interlink.
Bugles, anthems and the voices of the dead are audible through the
colonial framing of remembrance. At the same time the voices and sounds
of colonial soldiers are silenced. Disrupting and re-tuning these
cultures of sound then becomes an important post-colonial intervention,
as Nirmal Puwar has demonstrated in Noise of the Past.
As Les Back, Paul Gilroy and others have noted, alternative cultures of
sound have provided struggles against and demands beyond war at home and
abroad. While this is the case, commercial hip hop now provides sound
tracks for war and anti-colonial intimacies of former urban music
cultures have been fragmented through digital communication.
Through a series of talks and installations, performances and a film
screening this symposium explored these and other cultures of sound as
connected to unending war.
/Participants included, Les Back (Goldsmiths), Michael Bull (Sussex),
Joanna Callaghan (Sussex), Louis Goddard (Sussex), Michael Guida
(Sussex), Malcolm James (Sussex), Thanos Polymeneas-Liontiris (Sussex),
Kuldip Powar, Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths), Lyn Thomas (Sussex), Tom Tlalim
(Goldsmiths)./
6. The latest issue of /SEQUENCE: Serial Studies in Media, Film and
Music/: ABOUT SILENCE
We are delighted to present the latest issue of /SEQUENCE: Serial
Studies in Media, Film and Music/, REFRAME‘s experimental,
peer-reviewed, and sequential edited-collection format.
/SEQUENCE Five/: About Silence offers its readers, and potential
interlocutors, space for reflection on, and discussion of, notions of
silence, and in particular on forms of creative and critical practice
which turn on as well as treat silence – as a space of creativity and
criticality. The inaugural contribution to this issue, and to this
topic, is by Liz Greene, an academic and sound practitioner whose main
research interests are in the theory, history and practice of film
sound, currently based at Liverpool John Moore’s University. In her
essay “Silence,’ Greene focuses on a piece of her internet radio
practice as a space in which to “address silence and silencing in a
medium rarely considered for such questions and reflections.”
7. TALKS@MFM – REFRAME continues with its series of video and audio
recordings of research presentations and masterclasses held at the
School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.
·“A return to prime-time activism: social movements and media reform”
[MFM Research Seminar] by PROF DES FREEDMAN, March 16, 2016 [Video
Recording]
·“From Media Maps to #RiotIDs: Data Visualisation and Digital
Storytelling as Media Studies Research” [MFM Research Seminar] by DR
ANNA FEIGENBAUM, March 2, 2016 [Video Recording]
·“Child’s Play? Stop-Frame Television Animation for Children in the
Sixties and Seventies” [MFM Research Seminar] by DR RACHEL MOSELEY,
April 27, 2016 [Video Recording]
·“HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD (2015): Production, Engagement and
Distribution in Documentary” [A Media Practice Postgraduate Talk] by
JERRY ROTHWELL, 2016 [Video Recording]
·“Journalism and Broadcasting: a conversation” [MA Masterclass Series]
by ROBIN LUSTIG, 2016 [Video Recording]
·“Information Theory, Big History, and the Minds of Others” [Sussex
Humanities Lab Seminar Series]” by DR SIMON DEDEO, April 25, 2016 [Video
Recording]
·“Framing: The Essay Film as Theoretical Practice” [MFM Research
Seminar] by PROF LAURA RASCAROLI, December 9, 2015 [Video Recording]
·“Sonic Pi: Live Coding and the Intersection Between Arts, Research and
Education” [MFM Research Seminar] by DR SAM AARON December 2, 2015,
[Video Recording]
·“#notrascit – Exploring Online Ambient Racism” [MFM Research Seminar]
by DR SANJAY SHARMA, November 25, 2015 [Audio Recording]
·“Creative Directing: Games, Animation, Digital Things, A Media Practice
Finalist Talk” by DARREN GARRETT November 17, 2015, [Video Recording]
·“Gleaning, /Détournement /and the Compilation Film: Some thoughts on
/For One More Hour With You/ / /Un’ora Sola Ti Vorrei /(Alina Marazzi,
2002)“ by LAURA MULVEY (Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck,
University of London) October 13th, 2015, [Video Recording]
·“Glass and Game: The Speculative Girl Hero“ by CATHERINE DRISCOLL
(Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney)
September 30th, 2015. [Video recording]
·“Explorations in the Dark: How I Told 300 Stories Without a Single
Image” by MATT THOMPSON (Director of Rockethouse Productions) October
2015. [Video recording]
8. Reframing Activism, Mediático, Reframing Psychoanalysis, The
Audiovisual Essay and Global Queer Cinema updates.
AT REFRAMING ACTIVISM:
• The Radical Potential of Media Publicity: The Case of City
Plaza Refugee Squat in Athens
• “Words and Actions”: Donald Trump, Rape Culture, and Hashtag
Feminism
• The Return of Revolutionary Narratives and the Future of
Revolution
• Digital Vigilantism as critical reinforcement of law and order
AT MEDIÁTICO:
• /Narcos/: Screening “Latin Americanness” by Natália Pinazza
• On the Recent Guatemalan Film /Ixcanul/ by Carolina Fornoff
• Falling into /The Embrace of the Serpent/ by Deborah Shaw
• Recordings from 9th Annual Contemporary Directors Symposium
on Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Latin America’s Foremost Documentary Film Festival: /É Tudo
Verdade/ (/It’s All True/) by Stephanie Dennison
AT REFRAMING PSYCHOANALYSIS
• Thinking in Cases: On and Beyond the Couch
• Hidden Persuaders Blog
• Spaces of Psychoanalysis
• Celebrating the work of Elizabeth Cowie
AT THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY
• Two Masterclasses at CineCity: The Brighton Film Festival
2016 (Sarah Wood/Ruth Novaczek and Charlie Lyne)
• Adrian Martin, “A Voice Too Much” Reprint (2016)
• A list of published, open access reflections on audiovisual
essays and videographic film and moving image studies by Catherine Grant
AT GLOBAL QUEER CINEMA
• Queer Cinema and the Spaces of Europe – A Talk by Rosalind Galt and
Karl Schoonover
9. Call for Proposals: Poetics and Politics of Documentary Research
Symposium 2017
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