{"id":2029,"date":"2017-02-22T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T08:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2017-02-17T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:02:05","slug":"1-april-2017-future-imperfect-cinema-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/22\/1-april-2017-future-imperfect-cinema-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"1 April 2017: Future Imperfect Cinema Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 April 2017 in the Jill Craigie Cinema at the University of Plymouth<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Future Imperfect is a multidisciplinary symposium\u00a0that brings together makers and researchers across cinema, sound and moving image. <\/b>Organised by Dr Allister Gal<\/a>l, it\u00a0seeks to examine the role of cinema today – through discussion, performance and making. We are interested in mobilising ideas, negotiating various meanings and generating fresh perspectives.<\/p>\n

The future<\/strong> has often been the subject of Cinema, bringing into focus scientific and technological discoveries, stories and ways of seeing the world. Cinema has also been seen as collective, political and utopian, using the camera lens to capture and share the experience of everyday lives. The term Cinema is described as the art of the moving image. A cinema is also a space for showing films to the public. Cinema is therefore understood as an umbrella term: for moving image, sound and time-based forms.<\/p>\n

Cinema<\/strong> circulates. Cinema expands. Cinema is medium specific. Cinema is the other. Cinema is aesthetic. Cinema is improvisational, ephemeral and transitory. Cinema is analogue. Cinema is digital. Cinema is industry. Cinema is research. Cinema is collective. Cinema is popular. Cinema is installation. Cinema is performance. Cinema is interactive. Cinema is social. Cinema is interdisciplinary. Cinema is participatory.<\/p>\n

Cinema is imperfect.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anna Schober<\/a>\u2019s work explores public life focusing on its historic, political, aesthetic and affective aspects.\u00a0Professor of Visual Culture Studies at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt and author of several books, including The Cinema Makers<\/em> which \u2018investigates how cinema spectators became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema \u201cevents,\u201d writing about film, and making films themselves.<\/p>\n

Melanie Manchot<\/a> employs photography, video, film and sound to explore performative and participatory situations. Recent solo exhibitions include Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (2016), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (2016), fig-2 at the ICA, London (2015), Galerie M, Bochum (2015), the Toronto Photography Festival (2012), Nuit Blanche, Paris (2011) and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2010).<\/p>\n

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WORKSHOPS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Voice & Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Led by artist, feminist activist and writer Rose Gibbs<\/strong><\/a>. Her works are interconnected and exploratory of the possibilities of consciousness-raising, taking gender as a starting point for considering subjectivity and its role in shaping the cultural landscape.<\/p>\n

Imperfect Cinema<\/strong><\/p>\n

Led by Allister Gall and Dan Paolantonio, Imperfect Cinema<\/strong> is a d.i.y film project that explores the emancipatory potential of imperfection, by developing open access venues for cinema-makers and viewers \u2013 a cinema of imperfection.<\/p>\n

Imperfect Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imperfect Orchestra<\/a> is an eclectic ensemble of musicians whose aim it is to bring back the experience of live music accompaniments to film, theatre, dance, performance art, and many other forms.<\/p>\n

Imperfect VR Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Led by Michael Staeubig<\/strong>, a play theorist, game designer and creative coder, exploring games and playful experiences in various media with a focus on mixed reality and transhuman play. Participants need to bring laptop and smartphone.<\/p>\n

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TICKETS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets are available via the University of Plymouth\u00a0eStore<\/a>.<\/p>\n