[csaa-forum] Announcement: Symposium: Cinema in the Digital Age, Film Programme, Victoria University of Wellington

[Sean Redmond]

Announcement: Symposium: Cinema in the Digital Age, Film Programme, Victoria
University of Wellington
 
CINEMA IN THE DIGITAL AGE
One-day symposium presented by the Film Programme, School of English, Film,
Theatre, and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington


Thursday 11th February 2010 (free event)

The symposium will gather scholars and practitioners interested in the
expanded nature and new potential and possibilities of cinema in the digital
age.  The intention will be to explore theoretical and creative impulses,
new questions and dilemmas, and new modes and sites of production and
reception created by the transformation of digital film and cinema. The day
will involve presentations by the New Zealand Film Archive, and Weta
Digital, and there will be a panel session devoted to the ODigital Woman¹.
 
The keynote speaker for the symposium is Professor Sean Cubitt, Director of
the Media and Communications Program, the University of Melbourne.

Confirmed Speakers include:
Dr Catherine Fowler (University of Otago)
Jamie Lean  (New Zealand Film Archive)
Dr  Tim Groves (Film Programme, Victoria University of Wellington)
Dr. Leon Gurevitch (The School of Architecture and Design, Victoria
University of Wellington)

For the full details including the programme and RSVP details, visit OCinema
in the Digital Age¹ at
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/about-us/research-seminars.aspx#film  from
the 18th December 2009.