2015 World Picture Conference
Dates:13-14 Nov 2015
Locations:University of Toronto
Fri, 13 December
10:00 - 11:30 (Keynote)
Hart House, East Common Room
Christoph Menke
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
“The Paradox of Faculty and the Value of Beauty”
11:45 - 1:15 (In/Out)
Hart House, East Common Room
Christopher Rowe (Chair)
Rick Warner
University of North Carolina
In Pursuit of Creaturely Vision: Roxy’s Promenades and the Use of 3D in Godard’s Adieu au langage”
Gregory Flaxman
University of North Carolina
“Notes on a Cinematic Sublime”
Inga Pollmann
University of North Carolina
“Cinematic Stimmung: Mise-en-scène and the Order of the Sensible”
11:45 - 1:15 (Agency)
UTAC Art Lounge
Kajri Jain (Chair)
Alessandra Raengo
Georgia State University
“Black Living and the Image of Motility”
Meghan Sutherland
University of Toronto
“The Aporetic Apparatus”
Adam Kildare Cottrel
Georgia State University
“Governing by Faculty”
3:00 - 4:30 (Detection)
Hart House, East Common Room
Brian Jacobson (Chair)
Caetlin Benson-Allott, Seth Perlow
University of Oklahoma
“A Faculty for Horror?”
Amelie Hastie
Amherst College
“Murder by the Book: Columbo’s Aptitude for Detection”
Jennifer Pranolo
University of California, Berkeley
“The Punctum Retouched”
3:00 - 4:30 (Politics)
UTAC Art Lounge
Karly-Lynne Scott (Chair)
Kalling Heck
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Force and Hope in Medium Cool”
Scott Krzych
Colorado College
“Soderbergh’s Ordinary Objects”
Brian Price
University of Toront
“Before Politics: Contradiction in Aesthetic Experience”
4:45 - 6:15 (Institutions)
Hart House, East Common Room
James Cahill (Chair)
Carrie Reese
University of Toronto
“Soumission: Conditionalities of Michel Houellebecq’s University”
Robert Cavanagh
Emerson College
“College Sports and the Politics of Higher Education”
Niels Niessen
University of Toronto
“The Task of the Film Critic in Times of Streaming Video”
4:45 - 6:15 (Line)
UTAC Art Lounge
Matthew Stoddard (Chair)
Ryan Pierson
University of Calgary
“Rotoscoping as an Act of Love”
Mal Ahern
Yale University
“Pattern Recognition: Medium as Texture”
Michael Svedman
University of Pittsburgh
“The Portrait Films of Jean Rouch
Sat, 14 December
11:00 - 12:15 (Keynote)
Innis Town Hall
Olivia Boudreau
“Between You and Me”
12:30 - 2:00 (Bodies)
Innis 222
Sara Saljoughi (Chair)
Karly-Lynne Scott
Northwestern University
“X-ray Vision: On Limits to the Principle of Maximum Visibility”
William Davis
The Colorado College
“Cyborg Faculties”
Veronica Fitzpatrick
University of Pittsburgh
“Real Recognize Real, or: Can I Fuck This?”
12:30 - 2:00 (Seeing)
Innis 312
Matthew Thompson (Chair)
Anjo-marí Gouws
University of Toronto
“Hearing and seeing the in/visible: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary”
Martin Blumenthal-Barby
Rice University
“Surveillance, Or the Faculty to See (Without Being Seen)”
Gordon Sullivan
University of Pittsburgh
“’The Street Always Wins’: On Infrastructure”
3:30 - 5:15 (Figure)
Innis 222
Carrie Reese (Chair)
Olga Blackledge
University of Pittsburgh
“On the Faculty of Movement in a Mimetic Sense: The Case of Animation”
Denise Koller
Princeton University
“On Good Footing: Dancing and Bipedalism in Poussin”
Rebekah Rutkoff
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
“How to Paint with a Crystal Pen”
3:30 - 5:15 (Thought)
Innis 312
Niels Niessen (Chair)
Kenneth Berger
Brown University
“Thought, Cinema, Form of Life”
Eric Herhuth
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Animation’s Faculty for Thinking”
Christopher Rowe
University of Toronto
“Thoughts of Speed: On the Emergence of the Faculty of Information”
Matthew Stoddard
University of Toronto
“Totality as Archive: Mapping the General Intellect in The Film of Her”
5:30 - 7:00 (Media)
Innis 222
Brian Price (Chair)
Markos Hadjioannou
Duke University
“Becoming Host(age): Rear Window in the Age of Technological Interactivity”
Kyle Stevens
Colby College
“Bad Reception: Telephobia, Death, and Listening”
Scott Durham
Northwestern University
“Ça, c’est une autre histoire”: Proust, Marker, Godard”