BODIFICATIONS: MAPPING THE BODY IN MEDIA CULTURE Provisional Programme March 9th, 2016 Afternoon session 15.00-18.00: Film Heritage Kevin Brownlow (Film Director and Historian) Presenting Film History March, 10th 2016 9.30-11.00 The Exquisite Corpus: Film Heritage and Found Footage Films. Passing Through/Across Medias and Film Bodies André Habib (chair) (Université de Montréal) Annaëlle Winand (Université de Montréal) The Body, the Film, the Archive Milo Adami (Universita di Roma La Sapienza) Vidéo cinéphage: scratching, revisiting, remixing and mushing up the cinema footage Guillaume Potvin (Université de Montréal) Body- building; reassembling Arnold Schwarzenegger s film body 11.15-13.00 Director talk: Kevin Brownlow Afternoon session 15.00-18.00: Film Heritage Workshop with Kevin Brownlow March 11th, 2016 9:30-10:30
Linda Williams (University of California, Berkeley) To be confirmed 10:45-11:45 Artist talk: Isaac Julien 12:00-13:30 Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts: Bodies, artefacts, techniques: Spectacular exhibitions panel, curated by Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM/Grafics Directed by Viva Paci (UQAM) Maria Ida Bernabei (Université Paris 8, FR / IUAV, IT) Living Dead Frogs & Acrobatic Flies: past survivances in the first scientific films Martin Beaulieu (UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, CA) Museum of psychic disorders? Classification and use of therapeutic film in psychiatry Martin Bonnard (UQAM, Université de Montréal et Concordia, CA) Drone: des visions à distance chevillées au corps Film Heritage Jan Distelmeyer (Universität Potsdam, Germany) Interfacing with Film History. YouTube, the Body of Film, and the Gesture of Digitalicity Beatriz Tadeo Fuica, Julieta Keldjian (Universidad Católica del Uruguay), Simone Venturini (Università degli Studi di Udine) Changes in Bodies Through Time: Reflections on the Digitization of Uruguayan Super- 8 Short Films Feona Attwood (Middlesex University, UK) Total Immersion? New Developments in Porn/Studies Mirko Lino (Università degli Studi dell Aquila; Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy) The morphologies of the body between hard- core, snuff and virtual pornography Sara Janssen (University of Kent, UK)
Sensate Vision: From Maximum Visibility to Haptic Erotics Post Cinema Kata Szita (University of Gothenburg) Haptic Cinema: Smartphones and The Spectator's Body Juan Antonio Gómez Heredia (Universidad Iberoamericana, México City) New Identities? Cosmetic Surgery and Bodily Identity John Patrick Ayson (The State University of New York, Buffalo) The Interchangeable Body- Space as a Nomadic Subject- Object: the Excesses of Food Intake & Self- Quantifying Aps & the Artist as Artwork Ludovica Fales (University of West London) Weareble Technologies: a Potential Gateway to Extra- Virtual Immersion Bastien Daret (Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle) Blockbusters: fabrique de corps contemporains Atelier 18.00 19.00 Guillaume Arseneault, École des médias (UQAM) VeloKino: sensors mapping and interactive audiovisual experiences Introduced by: Viva Paci March 12, 2016 9:00-10:00 Artist talk: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi 10:15-11:45 Bernard Perron (Université de Montréal, CA) Zombie fiction and the body of the human Sonny Walbrou (Université de Lille, France) Bodies on display: videogame and the idea(l) of immersion Ariana Dongus (Universität Potsdam, Germany) From As- if to What- if - Creating Engineered Experiences in which fiction and reality merge 12:00-13:30 Éric Falardeau (Université du Quebec à Montréal, CA) L auteur pornographique
Braden Scott (Concordia University, CA) Take It Like a Man : Pornographic Archaeology in Kent Monkman s Group of Seven Inches Rosanna Maule (Concordia University, CA) Are These Damsels in Distress? Anita Sarkeesian, Gender Tropes in Video Games, and the Pro/Anti Porn Feminist Debate Media Archaeology Panel: Goldsmiths University of London (UK) Labour, Capture, Experience: Technological Mediations of the Body Mihaela Brebenel, Sasha Litvintseva The Labour of Editing and the Gesture of Mounting Roberto Mozzachiodi, Nikolaus Perneczky From Disavowal to Celebration: The Two Bodies of Screen Theory Sandra Kazlauskaitė, Alex Anikina Exploring the Techno- mediated Being- with in Gallery Film Art Thomas Waugh (Concordia University, CA) The Body? In? Gay? Porn?: A Bird in the Hand John Mercer (Birmingham City University, UK) Bored, Detached and Distracted: Performance and The Amateur Body in Gay Porn Gianni Cimador (Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy) Morphologies of an intensive Infinite: the male Body in gay porn Film Ofer Nordheimer Nur (Tel Aviv University, Israel) DIY gay porn websites: the time tunnel Post Cinema Emine Görgül (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) Transfiguring Ontology of Space: Space as a Becoming? Nicole Braida (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) Displaced Bodies: Narrating Migration Through Non- fictional Interactive Practices Lucilla Calogero (Iuav, University of Venice)
Thinking in Paradoxes: the More Virtual it is, the More Real it is. Food for Thought About Immersion in Interactive Documentaries. Albert Figurt (Indipendent Scholar) The "Bodyfication" of Music Videoclips in the Era of Digital (DIY) Audiovisual Streams Camille Périssé (Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle) Gravity ou l'exploration de l'espace corporel March 13, 2016 9:30-11:00 Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University, CA) I Feel like an Abstract Line 11:30-13:00 Elisa Virgili (Università degli Studi dell Insubria) Interviews, confession and gendered identities in Italian media context Jamie Hakim (University of East Anglia, UK) Chemsex: queering intimacy in precarious times Gabriele Jutz (Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria) Body Genres and Experimental Cinema Media Archaeology Linda Bertelli (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Towards an Economy of the Body Giancarlo Grossi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy) Hysterical Machines: A Brief History of the Salpêtrière s Graphic Devices Paula Arantzazu Ruiz (Universidad Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain) From anatomical theatres to Oh! Uomo, by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci- Lucchi: an archaeology of the medical gaze Oliver Carter (Birmingham City University, UK) Retro Bodies: The Rialto Report as Community Archive
Lesley Gabriel (Birmingham City University, UK) An Ethnohistory of the BDSM Scene in Birmingham and the West Midlands Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK), title TBA Silvia Rodeschini (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) True stories. The narratives of body in female porn performers autobiographies Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts Emanuela De Cecco (Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy) Once more. Eliasson, Ligna, Rimini Protokoll, the unfinished history of participation in arts Barbara Gileno (Università di Bologna, Italy) The Game of War: Artivism, Play and the Insurgent Body Daniel Mann (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) The Kitchen Knife. Docile Bodies Striking Back March 14, 2016 9:30-11:00 Jackie Stacey (University of Manchester, UK) Crossing Over with Tilda Swinton: Feminist and Queer Readings of Swinton's Off- Gender Personae in Cinema and Beyond 11:30-13:00 Jack Halberstam (University of Southern California, US), title TBA Queer Times/Queer Spaces and Transgender Lives Media Archaeology Rossella Catanese (Università di Roma La Sapienza) Dada Bodies Donatella Valente (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Technological gesture in the degraded moving image
Monise Nicodemos (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle) Paolo Gioli, le corps comme apparatus Noam Yuram (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Sex and the state: early Israeli pornography, perversion as mobilization Olga Galicka (Goethe- University- Frankfurt, Germany) When pornographic bodies become national entities: The Construction of a National Sexuality in Russian Pornography of the 1990s Giuseppe Previtali (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy) The pornification of terror. Islamic State s images and the spread of Hijab porn Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts Cristian Borges (University of São Paulo, Brazil) Dance as film: dancing bodies and cinematic movement Sarah Möller (Universität Potsdam, Germany) De- and Re- framing the dancer's body: Relationship between body and space in contemporary videodance Maria Teresa Soldani (Università di Pisa, Italy) Film, multimedia, and intertextual bodies: independent music and art scenes in New York 1976-1982 March 15, 2016 9:30-11:00 Erkki Huhtamo (UCLA, US), title TBA 11:30-13:00 Giorgio Avezzù (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy) The Screen Ladies and Our Simulations: Dante s Contribution to the History of Screen Practice Simone Natale (Loughborough University, UK), title TBA Jesko Jockenhövel (Film University Potsdam, Germany) Sublime Interactions: Digital- 3D and Virtual Reality as Interface
Media Archaeology Jonathan Rozenkrantz (Stockholm University, Sweden) Technostalgic Bodies: The Paradox of Old Skool Rave Videos Elena Gipponi (IULM Milan, Italy) Abbronzatissimi. Colourful bodies in the home movies of Italy s postwar boom Diego Cavallotti- Andrea Mariani (Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy), title TBA Mariana Baltar (Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Porn and Romance, aesthetics of excess to celebrate pleasure and dissident partnership Érica Sarmet (Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Sin porno no hay posporno: pornography, art and activism in Latin America Alessandra Mondin (University of Sunderland, UK) The Desiring Bodies of Feminist Pornographies Cinema and Contemporary Visual Arts Malgorzata Radkiewicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) The performative body in video arts of Polish artists. Katarzyna Kozyra, Izabela Gustowska and Bogna Burska Dalila D Amico (Università della Sapienza di Roma, Italy) The Disable Body between Past and Present. Photography and Performance Art Maud Ceuterick (University of Otago, New Zealand) Visual Arts: Screen expressions of women s wilful embodiment of space