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Media Acts We Are Most Pleased to Welcome Our Guests And Welcome to Media Acts We are most pleased to welcome our guests and colleagues to the 10th Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies (NorSIS) international conference, hosted by the Department of Art and Media Studies at NTNU in Trondheim. We are proud to present an exciting and varied programme that we hope will be filled with stimulating talks and meaningful exchanges: we have asked our keynote speakers and presenters to attempt to answer what ‘medium’ means, how mediated forms of expression are to be considered in terms of achievement, and how media shape our experiences and views. The response to our call for papers has been overwhelming and demonstrates that the themes of the conference are considered important, and that many scholars in many countries are working on questions that transgress the traditional academic disciplines. This ‘Nordic’ conference has thus become more international than ever, and is genuinely interdisciplinary. We believe that our conference will forge new contacts across disciplines and borders, and create new and lasting collaborations. We look forward to exciting days with you in Trondheim. Anne Gjelsvik, Erik Frisvold Hanssen, Aud Sissel Hoel, Marta Eidsvåg 3 MEDIA ACTS 2011: Programme Wednesday 26th October Location: Dokkhuset, Nedre Elvehavn Time 12.00-13.00 Registration 13.00-13.15 Opening: Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Kathrine Skretting 13.15-14.30 OPENING KEYNOTE SPEECH: Aud Sissel Hoel ‘Media Acts’ 14.30-1600 PAPER SESSION 1: Media materialities as media acts 16.00-16.30 Coffee Break KEYNOTE SPEECH: James Elkins 16.30-18.00 ‘The Strange and Unpleasant Boredom of Looking at Photographs’ 18.00-20.00 Wine reception, followed by PELBO concert Thursday 27th October Location: Nova conference rooms Time KEYNOTE SPEECH: KEYNOTE SPEECH: 09.00-10.15 Frederik Tygstrup ‘Fiction Unframed‘ 15.30-16.45 Jacques Rancière ‘What do images do with words?’ 10.15-10.30 Break 16.45-17.00 Break SESSIONS 2A–D SESSIONS 4A– D 2A. Media activism (18 Ariel) 4A. Tactical Performance Workshop with Larry Bogad 10.30-12.00 2B. Fiction, fact, spectatorship (17 Sirius) (Theatre Avant Garden) 2C. Medical media: Bodies, spaces, apparatuses (16 Pluto) 4B. The performative impacts of intermedial theatre (17 Sirius) 17.00-18.30 2D. Media acts and Rancière (14 Uranus) 4C. Extreme experiences and limits of intermedial acts in literature (16 Pluto) 12.00-13.00 Lunch 4D. Sound, space, experience (14 Uranus) SESSIONS 3A–D 3A. Theorizing intermediality (14 Uranus) Banquet dinner, Festsalen, Dronningensgate, by Credo 20.30 13.00-1500 3B. Personal politics of intermediality (18 Ariel) Restaurant 3C. Images, visual technologies and knowledge (17 Sirius) 3D. Intermedial transpositions (16 Pluto) 15.00-15.30 Coffee break Friday 28th October Location: Nova conference rooms Time 09.00-10.15 KEYNOTE SPEECH: SESSIONS 6A– D Sara Danius ‘The Mirror is the Message: 13.00-1500 Realism and the Mediation of the Real’ 6A. Theorizing recorded sound (14 Uranus) 10.15-10.30 Break 6B. Face value (17 Sirius) 6C. The formation of events by real-time media 10.30-12.00 SESSIONS 5A–D (18 Ariel) 5A. Avant-garde media acts (16 Pluto) 6D. Traditional media in digital surroundings (16 Pluto) 5B. Perceptual representations across media (14 Uranus) 5C. Performative mediation: the transformation 15.00-15-30 Coffee break of places, three case studies (17 Sirius) 5D. Art, space, performativity (18 Ariel) SESSIONS 7A– D 15.30-1700 7A. Analyzing intermediality. (17 Sirius) 12.00-13.00 Lunch 7B. The frames and materials of cinema (18 Ariel) 7C. Media ecologies (16 Pluto) 17.00 NORSIS ASSEMBLY and Concluding remarks Paper session 1: Wednesday, 28 October, 14.30-16.00 Media materialities as media acts Dokkhuset Chair: Eirik Frisvold Hanssen Lars Elleström (Linnaeus University): ‘Media Differences Forever: Media Representations and Transmediations’ Àgnes Pethő (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania): ‘Touching Images: The Performative Value of the Haptical and the Phenomenology of Cinematic Intermediality’ Sarah De Rijcke (Leiden University): ‘Documenting the arts. Enacting artful realities through digital photography’ 7 Paper session 2: Thursday, 27 October, 10.30-12.00 2A. 2B. 2C. 2D. Media activism Fiction, fact, spectatorship Medical media: Bodies, Media acts and Rancière spaces, apparatuses Room 18 Ariel Room 17 Sirius Room 14 Uranus Chair: Ginette Verstraete Chair: Sara Brinch. Chair: Kristoffer Jul-Larsen Room 16 Pluto Brianne Cohen (University of Chair: Aud Sissel Hoel Sara Brinch (NTNU): ‘Yet another Synnøve Vik (University of Pittsburgh): ‘Thomas Hirschhorn’s body too much? Bringing Jean-Louis Bergen): ‘The Mediality of Bijlmer Spinoza Festival: Untethering Anja Johansen (NTNU): ‘Forms (of) Comolli to The King’s Speech’ Destruction’ Banlieue Stereotypes’ Engaging the Sensorium: Contemporary Art and Popular Margrethe Bruun Vaage (NTNU): Anders Skare Malvik & Kristoffer Philipp Ruch (Center for Political Science Installations ‘Fiction and non-fiction as Jul-Larsen (NTNU): ‘Art as Beauty): ‘The Transformation of communicative practice, and the Technique’ Wounds, Human Right Activism Rita Elmkvist Nilsen (NTNU): theoretical problem of social realism’ rethought’ ‘Operational Brain Atlases’ Timotheus J.V. Vermeulen Bjørn Sørenssen (NTNU): ‘”Hitler (Radboud University Ginette Verstraete (VU University Kathrin Friedrich (Academy of Finds Out…”: The Digital Diffusion of Nijmegen/University of Reading) & Amsterdam): ‘Transmedia activism Media Arts, Cologne): ‘Medical Audiovisual Memes’ Media Dispositifs – Gry C. Rustad (University of along the Amsterdam metro lines’ Oslo): ‘Watching (quality) Television Pre/Performations of Visibility’ with Jacques Rancière’ 9 Paper session 3: Thursday, 27 October, 13.00-15.00 3A. 3B. 3C. 3D. Theorizing intermediality Personal politics of Images, visual technologies Intermedial transpositions intermediality and knowledge Room 14 Uranus Room 16 Pluto Room 17 Sirius Chair: Camilla Skovvbjerg Paldam Room 18 Ariel Chair: Heidrun Führer. Chair: Annamaria Carusi Chair: Christian Quendler. Heidrun Führer (Lund University): Anne Beaulieu (University of Arild Fetveit (University of Ilona Hongisto (University of ‘Adaptation of Thomas Mann’s Groningen) & Sarah De Rijcke Copenhagen): ‘Remediation, Turku): ‘Authorship and Adaptation, Death in Venice in film and opera’ (Leiden University): ‘The Network intermediality, or working in one or, Chris Marker as an Adaptor’ Realism: Making knowledge from medium by means of another?’ Jui-Pi Chien (National Taiwan images in digital infrastructure’ Christian Quendler (University of University): ‘Problematising Ovid’s Jørgen Bruhn (Linnaeus Innsbruck): ‘Diaristic Indulgences: Metatheses of ‘Artistic Rivalry: The Max Liljefors (Lund University): University): ‘Rethinking Carolee Schneemann’s Critique of Interventions of Painting into Story- ‘Seeing the Patterns: Biometrics in Intermediality Theory’ Vicarious Agency’ Telling by Velázquez, Titian and the Twenty-First Century’ Rubens’ Jon Inge Faldalen (University of Anna Sofia Rossholm (Linneaus Annamaria Carusi (University of Oslo): ‘Media as prepositions – University): ‘The Filmmaker’s Katalin Sándor (Babes-Bolyai Oxford/NTNU): ‘Scientific models: Towards another perspective on Notebook Across Media: Ingmar University, Cluj-Napoca): ‘In- mediated mediators’ media’ Bergman’ between books and photographs’ Henrik Gustafsson (University of Anna Dahlgren (Stockholm Øyvind Eide (King’s College Bergen): ‘From Scopic Regimes to University): ‘The Book of your life’ London): ‘Underspecified, Scotopic Vision: Mapping dark Ambiguous or Formal: Problems in Geography’ Creating Maps Based on Texts’ 10 Paper session 4: Thursday, October 27, 17.00-18.30 4A. 4B. 4C. 4D. The performative impacts of Extreme experiences and Sound, space, experience Tactical Performance intermedial theatre limits of intermedial acts in Workshop literature Room 14 Uranus Room 17 Sirius Chair: Asbjørn Tiller. with Larry Bogad Chair: Chiel Kattenbelt Room 16 Pluto Chair: Jarkko Toikanen. Johan-Magnus Elvemo (NTNU): Chiel Kattenbelt (Utrecht ‘Spatial Perception and Diegesis Theatre Avant Garden University) Mari Hatavara (University of in Multi-Channel Surround Tampere) Cinema’ Maike Bleeker (Utrecht University) Mirja Kokko (University of Asbjørn Tiller (NTNU): ‘Sewer Robin Nelson (University of Tampere) sounds – Environment London, Central School) Places are limited. Interested Amplification and Composition’ participants can book a place by Jarkko Toikkanen (University of Tampere) sending an email beforehand to Vincent Meelberg (Radboud [email protected]. University Nijmegen): ‘Groovin’ For more information, see programme leaflet or Media Acts High: The Performative Power of website. a Sonic Medium’ 11 Paper session 5: Friday, 28 October, 10.30-12.00 5A. 5B. 5C. 5D. Avant-garde media acts Perceptual representations Performative mediation: the Art, space, performativity across media transformation of places, Room 16 Pluto three case studies Room 18 Ariel Chair: Per Bäckström. Room 14 Uranus Chair: Patrik Sjöberg. Chair: Lena Hopsch. Room 17 Sirius Per Bäckström (Karlstad Dagmar Brunow (Halmstad Chair: Liv Hausken. University): ‘The Nordic Neo-avant- University): ‘Film-making as Henriette Thune (University of garde in the 1950-60s – Art and intervention: The performative turn Stavanger): ‘Closeness or Susanne Østby Sæther (University media attacked’ and the political avant-garde’ distance; What do media do to of Oslo): ’”Invisible Film:” Projection representations of the from place to site’
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