[Commlist] Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty, Turbulence and Moving

Screen Media and Theory Workshop: Uncertainty, Turbulence and Moving 
Image Archives
11-12th June 2019, University College London
Convened by Dr Annie Ring (University College London) and Dr Lucy 
Bollington (University College London)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screen-media-and-theory-workshop-uncertainty-turbulence-and-moving-image-archives-tickets-59710545850

This workshop will explore how experimental film and other screen media 
practices have engaged with concepts of uncertainty and turbulence 
through their use of found and mixed footage and other archival material 
from the mid twentieth century to the present day.

Uncertainty and turbulence are two of the defining experiences of late 
modernity. Despite the technological changes of the digital revolution 
making increasingly vast amounts of knowledge available, new 
possibilities for data manipulation and anxieties about a post-truth era 
are combining to produce a historical moment more knowledgeable and yet 
more uncertain than ever before. Given this context, the dubious place 
of the archive as authoritative store of knowledge has seemingly reached 
its lowest point, and yet screen media practices have continued to turn 
to archives of different kinds in order to grapple with uncertainties 
and turbulence in their aesthetic forms. At this workshop, we will 
reflect on contemporary phenomena of uncertainty and turbulence from a 
range of formal and theoretical perspectives, conceptualising these 
terms in relation to issues such as postproduction, post-representation, 
the attention economy and shifting ideas about data, the crowd and the 
commons. In so doing, we will place particular emphasis on how screen 
media work produces novel pathways into thinking about and refashioning 
notions of uncertainty and turbulence, and ideas about the archive in 
the contemporary era. The talks by academics and artists and a 
theoretical discussion session with pre-circulated readings will address 
the use of moving image archives in new screen media, including 
postcinema, art film and web based narratives, as well as looking back 
to lost footage from resistant filmmaking projects and the use of the 
moving image in recent alt-right media practices.

The workshop will include presentations by academic speakers working in 
film and screen studies, German, Latin American studies, media 
archaeology, philosophy, critical and cultural theory. There will also 
be an artist talk by Rose Butler and a keynote by Austrian artist, 
activist and theorist Manu Luksch. All participants will be invited to 
join in a theory workshop focussed on pre-circulated readings and so 
contribute to collective reflection on topics of uncertainty, 
turbulence, the archive and screen media practices.

Research assistance by Laura Lux (King’s College London)

Artist keynote by Manu Luksch

Artist talk by Rose Butler

Other confirmed speakers:

Dr Daniela Agostinho (University of Copenhagen)

Dr Ramon Amaro (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Dr Erika Balsom (King’s College London)

Dr Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Aarhus University)

Prof Erica Carter (King’s College London)

Dr Jenny Chamarette (Queen Mary University of London)

Dr Rafael Dernbach (Futurium, Berlin)

Ece Elbeyi (University of Copenhagen)

Prof Lee Grieveson (University College London)

Dr Rhiannon Harries (University of Nottingham)

Dr Pepita Hesselberth (Leiden University)

Dr Ekaterina Kalinina (Södertörn University)

Dr Leila Mukhida (University of Cambridge)

Dr Maria Poulaki (University of Surrey)

Dr Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool)

Dr Kristin Veel (University of Copenhagen)


The event is a collaboration between University College London School of 
European Languages, Cultures and Societies, the DAAD-funded Circulating 
Cinema Research Project, part of the German Screen Studies Network, the 
Uncertain Archives Research Collective and University College London 
Institute of Advanced Studies Turbulence Project. It is generously 
funded by University College London Global Engagement Funds, the German 
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University College London Institute of 
Advanced Studies and Uncertain Archives.


Registration:

Registration is free of charge; please register by 1 June 2019 to secure 
a place and receive pre-circulated readings.

Programme:

The events on 11th June will run from noon, and include a theory 
workshop with pre-circulated readings and an evening keynote and 
screening by artist Manu Luksch at 7:30pm. The events on 12th June, from 
9am-5.45pm will include a series of talks by academics and artists and 
discussion.

Full programme at this link: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZZ6v1aCrbxOh-Wx-XU2q5OH4x2qttbrwIAyS44l_t9k/edit?usp=sharing

Numbers are limited for the daytime sessions on 11th and 12th June. 
Please register early to secure your place.

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