Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Sean Cubitt (U. of Melbourne) and Douglas Kellner (UCLA) to speak in Los Angeles

Published on April 30, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Sean Cubitt and Douglas Kellner will contributing as plenary speakers at the International Conference on the Image, 2-3 December 2010 in Los Angeles, USA.

Sean Cubitt is Director of the Program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture (Comedia/Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Macmillans/St Martins Press, 1993), Digital Aesthetics (Theory, Culture and Society/Sage, 1998), Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2004) and EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005). More…

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration, encompassing Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. More…

PIXELS by Patrick JEAN

Published on April 27, 2010 in News, Newsletter and Video. 0 Comments

Representing Mother******s

Published on April 26, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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From 3quarksdaily.com…

In the year 867, a new portrait mosaic of the Virgin Mary & Son was unveiled in the apse of the Hagia Sophia — the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church in Istanbul (then Constantinople) — homilized by the Armenian-born soon-to-be–Patriarch Photios as a victory over Iconoclasm: the almost-century-long proscription on depiction that had rocked the ages-old Byzantine art world to its foundations. This forbearance of graven images was (and remains) one of the most profound differences between Islam and its Great Satanic neighbors. More…

MoMA: Cartier-Bresson, Visionary

Published on April 21, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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From John G. Morris at VF Daily…

More than half a century ago, New York’s Museum of Modern Art planned a “posthumous” exhibition of photographs by the then-little-known French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. At the time, MoMA’s first curators of photography, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, believed their friend had died in World War II.

Cartier-Bresson, it turned out, was very much alive – so alive, in fact, that he would become the most influential photographer of the 20th century, which he outlived by four years. More…

International Conference on the Image

Published on April 20, 2010 in Conference and Newsletter. 1 Comment

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http://ontheimage.com

The Image Conference
2-3 December 2010
University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Plenary Speakers

  • Howard Besser, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City, USA
  • Sean Cubitt, Media and Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  • Douglas Kellner, George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • Becky Smith, Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Call for Papers

If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins by submitting a paper proposal. More information on proposals, presentation types, and other options available here. If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.

Registration

Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. 2010 Image Conference registration options.

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The Incidental Video Screen Is Seen by More Viewers Than Prime Time

Published on April 12, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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From Stephanie Clifford at The New York Times…

A new report from the measurement company Nielsen shows that ads on outside-the-house video screens — in places like health clubs, gas stations and elevators — can reach many more people than ads on prime-time television.

The report, called the “Fourth Screen Network Audience Report” (Nielsen is calling it the “fourth screen” after television, the computer and mobile), is expected to be released on Monday. It researched 10 screen networks, from companies like NCM Media Networks and Screenvision, which run ads in movie theaters, to Gas Station TV, which places screens on gas pumps.

“If you took the 10 networks that we measured and put a spot on each of the 10” for a month, “you’d draw more exposures than having a spot on every one of the top 20 programs in prime time” in a given week, said Paul Lindstrom, senior vice president of the Nielsen Company. More…