Six evenings of visual magic
Professor Pepper’s Ghost: Six Evenings of Visual Magic
The Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
A collaboration between the IMCC and the Magic Lantern Society, following on from a successful series of events in 2008, the old Polytechnic cinema at the University of Westminster’s Regent Street building, where the first ever motion picture was shown in the UK, will be hosting a series of six Thursday night lectures on pre-cinematic technologies of the visual.
All the talks start at 7pm, with doors open from 6pm, and are free of charge.
Thursday 12 November 2009
‘Professor’ Mervyn Heard, ‘Phantasmagoria-mania’
Thursday 26 November 2009
Simon Warner, ‘Lavater – The Shadow of History’
Thursday 10 December 2009
Dr Frank Gray, ‘Visualising the Marvellous: G.A. Smith and his film Santa Claus’
Thursday 28 January 2010
Paul Kieve, ‘Grappling with Ghosts: Staging Ghost Effects in the Modern Theatre’
Thursday 11 February 2010
Mark Butterworth, ‘Geared to the Stars: Victorian Astronomy through the Magic Lantern’
Thursday 25 February 2010
Stephen Herbert, ‘From Anorthoscope to Zoopraxiscope: An A-Z of Victorian Animated Cartoons’
Download the programme here.
Watch the Old Cinema slideshow on the BBC News website here.
Ezra Pound at the Polytechnic
Ezra Pound and Modern Criticism: 100 Years in London
Friday 4 December 2009, 9.30-5.00
Cayley Room (room 152), University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street
Celebrating the centenary of Ezra Pound’s lectures on Romance literature at the Polytechnic Institute in Regent Street, this one-day symposium, co-organised by the IMCC, brings together a range of speakers to discuss both Pound’s time in London and his contribution to modern literary criticism.
Speakers include: Massimo Bacigalupo (Genoa), Walter Bauman (Ulster), Rebecca Beasley (Oxford), Helen Carr (Goldsmiths), David Moody (York), Nick Selby (UEA)
Introduced by: David Cunningham and Leigh Wilson
FREE ADMISSION!
Tagged as Ezra Pound, Literature, Modernism
Interview with Nada Prlja
The Institute’s resident expert in activist art Stefan Szczelkun’s interview with Yugoslavian-born Nada Prlja is now up on the Metamute site. Read it here.
Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde
SURREALISM, POST-WAR THEORY, AND THE AVANT-GARDE
Friday 27 – Saturday 28 November 2009
17.15 – 19.00, 27 November
10.00 – 18.30, 28 November (with registration from 9.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Special Keynote Address: Professor Allan Stoekl (Penn State), ‘The Drift: Surrealism, Situationism and Postsustainable Strategies of Gleaning’
Friday 27 November, 17.30-19.00, followed by reception
Saturday Speakers: Lucy Bradnock (Getty Research Institute), David Cunningham (University of Westminster), Jonathan Eburne (Pennsylvania State University), Jill Fenton (Queen Mary, University of London), Patrick ffrench (Kings College, University of London), Steven Harris (University of Alberta, Edmonton), Alyce Mahon (Trinity College, Cambridge), Gavin Parkinson (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Michael Richardson (independent scholar).
Ticket/entry details: £10. Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events Coordinator, The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the ‘Surrealism, Post-War Theory and the Avant-Garde conference’. Or call 020 7848 2785/2909 to make a credit card booking. Or, for further information, send an email to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Programme can be downloaded here.
Tagged as Surrealism, the avant-garde, Theory
Re-placing the novel: Sinclair and Ballard
David Cunningham’s 2007 essay on Iain Sinclair, J.G. Ballard and the contemporary novel has been posted by Simon Sellars on his splendid website The Ballardian. Read it here.
Tagged as Ballard, novel, Sinclair, Urban
Rem Koolhaas interview
David Cunningham and Jon Goodbun’s interview with OMA architect Rem Koolhaas is now up as a highlight on the Radical Philosophy website. Click here to download the pdf.
Tagged as Architecture, Koolhaas, radical philosophy, Urban
THE FUTURE
THE FUTURE
A series of events programmed by the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster, at The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia as part of their current exhibition ‘Sculpture of the Space Age’, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas.
Thursday November 5th 2009, 6:30-8:30: THE FUTURE
Tom Corby (new media artist; cultural ecologist; University of Westminster)
David Cunningham (academic, aesthetician, University of Westminster)
Benjamin Noys (author of The Culture of Death and Georges Bataille, University of Chichester)
John Timberlake (painter, photographer, Head of BA Fine Art, Middlesex University)
Thursday November 12TH, 2009, 6:30-8:30: THE FUTURE IS HISTORY
Jon Cairns (fine arts, Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts)
Sally O’Reilly (art critic, Founder of Implicasphere, author of The Body in Contemporary Art)
Uriel Orlow (multi-media installer, historian, narrator of the impossible, University of Westminster)
Saturday November 21st, 2009, 2-4: THE FUTURE IS TOMORROW
Lennard J. Davis (author of books on normalcy, obsession, and genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Chris Horrocks (author of books on Foucault, McLuhan, and Baudrillard, Kingston University)
Ben Watson (independent music critic, Marxist theorist, poet, and author of books on Frank Zappa, art and class, and Derek Bailey)
Thursday November 26th, 6:30-8:30: THE FUTURE IS NOW
Garin Dowd (Deleuzian commentator on film & writing, Thames Valley University)
Sue Golding (philosopher of time and space, University of Greenwich)
Stephen Melville (critic of modernity and the avant-garde; Ohio State University)
Chair: David Cunningham and Marquard Smith, University of Westminster, London
Tagged as futurology, the avant-garde, The Future
Bio-Culture and the Post-Humanities: Animals?
Friday 20th November 2009
2:00 pm – 6: 00 pm
Room 352, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster
Giovanni Aloi, Editor of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Nicola Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Lennard J. Davis, Professor of the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Dr Rob La Frenais, Curator, The Arts Catalyst, London
Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts Catalyst, London
Dr Joanna Zylinska, Reader in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Dr Marquard Smith, Director, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture
Tagged as Animals, Event, Post-Humanities
Interviewing with Introducing Art
‘Introducing Art’ have just interviewed Thomson & Craighead for Issue V of their online publication. You can read the illustrated interview here…
Horizon at Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Thomson & Craighead’s live installation Horizon will be re-staged at Impakt Festival in Utrecht, Holland from October 14th 2009 alongside works by Jonas Dahlberg, Guido van der Werve, Vadim Fishkin, Guy Sherwin, Glenn Kaino and Julieta Aranda. More information on this exhibition here.
Tagged as holland, horizon, thomson
