2011 World Picture Conference
Dates:21-22 October 2011
Locations:University of Toronto
Friday 21 October, 2011
9.45 - 11.15 (Keynote)
Music Room
Elizabeth Povinelli
Columbia University
“The Dwelling Science: Lessons Learned from a Graphic Memoir.
11.30 - 1.00 (Vanishing Points)
Music Room
Scott Krzych
Colorado College
“Endless Boundaries: Representing Distance in OpenWorld Videogames.”
Karen Pinkus
Cornell University
“How Far is the Future”?
Meghan Sutherland
University of Toronto
“On Either Side of Distance.”
11.30 - 1.00 (Ontology)
East Common Room
Steve Choe
University of Iowa
“‘The Just Distance’: Nancy’s Evidence of Film.”
Kalling Heck
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“Bazin/Düttmann: A Repositioning of Bazin’s Ontology.”
Ani Maitra
Brown University
“’J’encule le monde’: Confronting the Homo/textual in Leo Bersani’s Homos.”
2.00 - 4.00 (Remoteness)
Music Room
Angelica Fenner
University of Toronto
“The Politics of Aesthetics in Thomas Arslan’s From Afar.”
Elena Gorfinkel
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“Intimate Distance: Affective Topography in Tsai Ming Liang’s Cinema.”
Rebekah Rutkoff
CUNY Graduate Center
“Winged Distance: Robert Beavers’ American Imagination.”
2.00 - 4.00 (Making Distance)
East Common Room
Daniel Reynolds
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Extended Cognition at a Distance.”
Megan Fernandes
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Tiny Matter: NeuroArchitecture in the 21st Century.”
Bishnupriya Ghosh
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Closer Still: The Perceptual Field of Proximity.”
4.15 - 6.00 (Nearly)
Music Room
Eugenie Brinkema
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“‘A zombie is a small yellow flower’: Distance, Discord, Dogtooth.”
Brian Price
University of Toronto
“Style, in Two Times.”
John David Rhodes
University of Sussex
“Too Near, Too Far Away.”
Agustin Zarzosa
SUNY Purchase
“The Monad Nearby.”
4.15 - 6.00 (Perception)
East Common Room
Paul Flaig
Cornell University
“Schizophrenic Laughter, Gymnastic Perception and the Slapstick Spectator.”
Sam Ishii-Gonzalez
New School University
“Suspended Meaning: Bergson, Art, and the Zone of Indetermination.”
Gordon Sullivan
University of Pittsburgh
“Time Frames: Bergson and the Medium of Comics.”
Wednesday 14 December, 2011
10.00 - 11.45 (Between)
Room 222
Zach Campbell
Northwestern University
“Video Between TV and Utopia.”
Alexander Greenhough
Stanford University
“Kubrick’s Distance.”
Andrew Starner
Brown University
“Flat Out! Tele-vision Crossing Performance.”
Brian Wall
Binghamton University
“From Art to Anti-Art: Distance and Dialectics in Experimental Film.”
10.00 - 11.45 (Bodies)
Room 312
Kristopher Cannon
Georgia State University
“Disfiguring Distance: The Scarred Gap Between Presence and Absence.”
Michelle Menzies
University of Chicago
“Movement in the Air: Cinematic Poetry and the Technicity of Experience.”
Niels Niessen
University of Minnesota
“My Name is Rosetta: Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Rosetta.”
Alessandra Raengo
Georgia State University
“Reification, Reanimation and the Money of the Real.”
12.00 - 1.30 (Connection)
Room 222
Rob Cavanagh
Northwestern University
“Intimacy and Fantasy.”
Seb Franklin
Anglia Ruskin University
“Cloud Control, or the Network as Medium.”
Louis-Georges Schwartz
Ohio University
“Music in the Age of Just-in-Time Delivery, or Tiqqun’s Distance from Bloom.”
12.00 - 1.30 (Measurement)
Room 312
Adam Cottrel
Georgia State University
“Godard at a Distance.”
Sorin Radu Cucu
Baruch College/NYU
“On-Target Media: Military Strategy vs. Narrative Practice.”
J. Emmanuel Raymundo
Tulane University
“What is the Distance of Safe? The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.”
3.00 - 4.45 (Scale)
Room 222
James Leo Cahill
University of Toronto
“Cinema of Animal Attraction.”
Jennifer Johung
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
“Molecules to Human: BioDesign and the Scaling of Synthetic Life.”
Lida Oukaderova
Rice University
“The Aesthetics of Proximity: Soviet Widescreen Technologies and Transitions of History.”
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Northwestern University
“In the House, In the Picture: Distance, Proximity, and Desire in the American Mid-Century Movie Theater.”
3.00 - 4.45 (Geo/Political)
Room 312
Nadine Attewell
McMaster University
“‘Moments that clip together like magnets’: War, Distance, and the Politics of Juxtaposition.”
Sam Cooper
University of Sussex
“Distant Relatives: The Robinson Mythos from Defoe to Keiller.”
Michael Lawrence
University of Sussex
“Mangling Margaret O’Brien: Picturing Distant Suffering in You, John Jones! (1943).”
Steven Marsh
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Untimely Militants: The Unanchored Cinema of Isaki Lucuesta.”
5.30 - 7.00 (Keynote)
Innis Town Hall
Lorenz Engell
Bauhaus University, Weimar
“Apollo TV: The Copernican Turn of the Gaze.”