[csaa-forum] Jeffrey Shaw seminar @ UNSW

[James Donald]

Media, Film and Theatre Seminars at UNSW
Wed 13 Oct at 5 p.m.,
Webster Building 327

The Convergence of Digital Cinema and New Media Art
Practice
Professor Jeffrey Shaw,
Executive Director UNSW iCinema Centre, Sydney
Despite the cinema's heritage of technological and creative diversity, it 
is Hollywood that has come to define its dominant forms of production and 
distribution, its technological apparatus and its narrative forms. But the 
hegemony of Hollywood's modalities of movie making is being increasingly 
challenged as the new digital
modalities for the production and presentation of cinematic content are 
setting up highly appropriate platforms for the further evolution of the 
traditions of independent, experimental cinema. In his presentation Jeffrey 
Shaw will discuss the convergent multiplicity of
new techniques of representation and intercommunication and evaluate 
specific examples of current art practice that exemplify the emergent 
identities of the digitally expanded cinema.
Jeffrey Shaw
Jeffrey Shaw has been at the forefront of the practice and
theory of interactive digital cinema for over two decades.
He uses complex technologies to create large-scale immersive
landscapes, fantastic spaces that explore the meeting point
between touch, movement and imagination. Before becoming
Professor of Media Art at UNSW, he was Director of the
Research Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, the Centre for
Art and Media at Karlsruhe in Germany. His current projects
include Conversations, TVisionarium and Eavesdrop;
his latest book is Future Cinema: The Cinematic
Imaginary after Film.


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Dr James Donald
Professor of Film Studies
School of Theatre, Film & Dance
University of New South Wales
Sydney
NSW 2052
Australia

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