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142 Dwinelle Hall
Kelly Sears
Filmmaker and Animator Kelly Sears in person to present an evening of award winning experimental animation films. Kelly Sears is an experimental animator who cuts up and collages imagery from American culture and politics to intervene with the history embedded in the frame. Working with appropriated images ranging from thrift store cast-offs to archival material, she uses...
142 Dwinelle Hall
Karen Beckman
Karen Beckman, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania November 20th, 5:00 pm 142 Dwinelle ...
Dwinelle 142 (Nestrick Room)
Speaker: Warren Sack
In a chapter on rhetoric in his recently published book, The Software Arts (MIT Press, 2019) he recounts a history of demonstration. Aristotle tells us that the strongest rhetoric is closely tied to logical demonstration. The history of the “demo” starts in ancient Greece, when definitive demonstration was a matter of deduction as practiced in geometry. In the 17th c....
Zoom webinar
Speakers: Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux
Click Here to Register Points, scores, tokens, chips, coins, cash, stocks, scrips, after the the US housing bubble and the global financial crisis in 2008 and with the emergence of the gig economy, crypto assets, and platform capital over the last decade, money has gotten weird. Credit card points and frequent flyer miles make a game of...
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Speaker: Sebastian Franklin
This talk examines the racial-capitalist foundations of digital notions of information, communication, and self-regulation. Drawing on published and archival media-historical material, Franklin will argue that the complex of value and dispossession constitutes an informatic mechanism whose logical and material foundations shape the twentieth-century development of digital devices, ways of seeing, and modes of organization. Seb Franklin is...
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Speaker: James Hodge
In the 1990s the emergence of the World Wide Web changed the media landscape decisively if uncertainly. In the first decade or so of the 2000s the tectonics of that media landscape again shifted with the rise of always-on computing: the milieu of smartphones, social media, and ubiquitous wireless networks. This second shift may be seen...
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Bradford Nordeen
In 1983, German documentary enfant terrible Rosa Von Praunheim trained his lens on the trans and gender defying Americans who ruled the nightlife scene in Berlin as cultural émigrés. Scripting the loosest of narratives around their wily New Wave performances, City of Lost Souls follows Angie Stardust, who runs the boarding house and adjacent restaurant, "Burger Queen," where her lodgers earn...
Zoom meeting
Domietta Torlasco
Click Here to Register In this paper, I argue that cinema’s stories of species survival at once hide and duplicate the racialization of matter that has marked the history of geology. In my account, the Anthropocene—the epoch in which humans have become a planet-wide “force of nature”—figures as a discourse that mainstream cinema does not simply translate but, rather...
142 Dwinelle Hall
Julie Andem is a Norwegian screenwriter, director, and television producer. She is best known as the creator, screenwriter, director, and showrunner for the acclaimed young adult internet/television series SKAM. Mark Sandberg is Professor and Chair of Film & Media and Professor of Scandinavian. His research has centered on pre-cinematic visual culture, silent film history, Scandinavian cinema, serial...
142 Dwinelle Hall
The professional cinema fraternity, Delta Kappa Alpha, will be hosting a showcase for the student works of Silvia Turchin’s 186 Documentary production course. We would like to invite all of you to support the work being produced by our very own students and peers! 186 Showcase: Friday, May 15 5:00 Reception ...