[ecrea] Symposium: Indefinite Visions

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Symposium: Indefinite Visions, Whitechapel Gallery June 24-5

Indefinite Visions

Zilkha Auditorium, Whitechapel Gallery, London

June 24-5, 11.30am-5.45pm

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Curated by Richard Misek and Allan Cameron

A two-day event bringing together academics, film-makers and artists to 
explore the indefinite and the illegible in moving images – from 
artists’ film and video to experimental film and commercial cinema.

Light, motion, definition, compression: the conditions of recording, 
storing and screening moving image works are subject to constant 
variations that pull them away from perfect visibility. Film-makers and 
artists often seek out and work with the resulting visual uncertainty, 
from the warping of space to the melding of senses; speed to slowness; 
darkness to glare; and blur to glitch. Indefinite Visions explores the 
possibility that an important function of moving image is not to show 
but to obscure, and that – like the photographer in Michelangelo 
Antonioni’s Blow Up – the closer and deeper we look at an image, the 
less clear it becomes.

Each day will include presentations, conversations, and screenings on 
film and video, complemented by two evening programmes of films at Close 
Up Film Centre. The event will also feature a programme of screenings 
curated by Kim Knowles, programmer of Edinburgh Film Festival's 'Black 
Box' strand. VR installation 'Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness', winner 
of this year's Tribeca Interactive award, will also be installed as an 
expanded cinema experience at Close Up on both days.

Participating artists will include film-maker and director of Light 
Cone, Emmanuel Lefrant; double 25FPS prize-winner Takashi Makino; 
Jacques Perconte, whose latest film Ettrick recently screened at MoMA's 
DocFortnight; leading glitch artist Rosa Menkman; Ars Electronica 
prize-winning computational film-maker Anouk de Clerq; nanoartist 
Frederick de Wilde; and Slade Professor of Art Susan Collins.

Speakers will include D.N.Rodowick, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Catherine 
Fowler, Emmanuelle André, Holly Rogers, Paul Thomas, Sean Cubitt, Allan 
Cameron, Richard Misek, Erika Balsom, Martine Beugnet, Christa 
Blümlinger, Arild Fetveit, and Maria Palacios Cruz.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/indefinite-visions/

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2016/indefinite-visions-part-i

https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2016/indefinite-visions-part-ii

The event is supported by a Digital Transformations grant from the Arts 
and Humanities Research Council (@DigiTrans).




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