Media
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THE 2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY SYMPOSIUM
When: Friday 20 June & Saturday 21 June
Where: 2008 Biennale of Sydney Symposium, Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3, AGNSW.
The Media Department is a public program partner for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, which opens next week. Please see below information on the Biennale Symposium, held on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 June at the Art Gallery of NSW.
The Keynote lecture is by anthropologist Michael Taussig.
FREE
BOOKINGS: www.bos2008.com
THE 2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE LECTURE PROFESSOR MICHAEL TAUSSIG: HUMMING SATURDAY 21 JUNE, 12-1 PM
Taking his lead from Winnie-the-Pooh and F. Nietzsche, Michael Taussig (Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University) explores the place between singing and talking where the hum of the great Bumble bee meets the body of our faltering world.
SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS
SESSION 1: THE RETURN AND THE FILMIC IMAGINAIRE
PARTICIPANTS: GERARD BYRNE, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, KATHRYN MILLARD AND MICHAEL SNOW.
FRIDAY 20 JUNE, 10.00 AM-1 PM
SESSION 2: SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS
PARTICIPANTS: GARLAND ALLEN, ATTILA CSÖRGŐ, SHARMILA SAMANT AND JOHN POTTS.
FRIDAY 20 JUNE, 2-4.30 PM
SESSION 3: DYNAMISM, KINETICISM, SOUND AND COLOUR
PARTICIPANTS: TYLER CANN, WYSTAN CURNOW, VIRGINIA MADSEN AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST SATURDAY 21 JUNE, 10.00 AM-11.40 AM
SESSION 4: WORD: SPOKEN, SUNG, SEEN
PARTICIPANTS: RICHARD BELL, EMORY DOUGLAS, SAM DURANT, ROMAINE MORETON, STEPHEN MUECKE AND MC TREY.
SATURDAY 21 JUNE, 1.45-4.30 PM
The Biennale symposium is held in partnership with the Department of Media, Macquarie University and the University of Technology, Sydney.
Sydney Writers' Festival
When: 24th May 2008
Where: Walsh Bay
The Media Department is sponsoring two events at the 2008 Sydney Writers Festival:
1) The Lives of Others
Event 238
Readers, critics and publishers alike love biography, which demand of the biographer years of research and a love for the subject. Two biographers at the top of their game, Hermione Lee and Simon Sebag Montefiore, discuss the lives of Edith Wharton and Joseph Stalin and the art of biography.
Saturday, May 24 2008, Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay, 14:00 - 15:00
2) Writing Lives
Event 242
From memoir, family history and biographer Craig Sherborne, Andrew Riemer and Jacqueline Kent discuss the chronicling of lives.
Saturday, May 24 2008, Sydney Dance Company, Studio 2/3, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, 14:30 - 15:30
Sydney Writers' Festival
When: 28th May - 3rd June
The Media Department is involved in several sessions at this year's Sydney Writer's Festival:
The Writer's Reader How crucial is the art of storytelling to journalism and nonfiction? From news features to investigations, memoir to travel writing, what makes standout pieces of journalism and non-fiction effective, memorable and enduring? Questions raised by the Writer's Reader, a new collection of journalism, non-fiction and interviews by Susie Eisenhuth and Willa McDonald will be discussed by authors Pico Iyer, Malcolm Knox, Ashley Hay with Mark Mordue.
Thursday 31-May-07 1630 1800
Souls in Motion Transcendental travel writer Pico Iyer once referred to himself as "a global village on two legs". Claire Scobie found herself in Tibet searching for a rare lily. Andrew Mueller has been given a guided tour of Lebanon by Hizbollah, and once found himself arrested in Cameroon while travelling with an illegal separatist group. They share their tales of global wandering with Joyce Morgan.
Friday 01-Jun-07 1530 1630
Pico Iyer in conversation A longtime essayist and author of numerous books including The Global Soul, world-wanderer Pico Iyer is regarded as one of the most eloquent and incisive observers of the emerging global culture. Caroline Baum talks transcendental wanderlust with one of the most revered and respected travel writers of our time.
Saturday 02-Jun-07 1530 1630
Symposium - After the Event: Rewriting Art History
When: 7th - 9th July
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Convened by the Media Department in partnership with the Biennale of Sydney
This Symposium will undertake a rethinking of art history, contemporary art practice and media culture - including an investigation of performance, re-enactment, the documentary and the archive - in the era of globalisation.
Free: Bookings essential, seats are limited, email education@mca.com.au
Keynote Address: Professor Boris Groys (Philosophy and Media Theory, Academy for Design, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Friday 7 July, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Symposium continues Saturday 8 July at 10 am and concludes Sunday 9 July at 6 pm.
International speakers include Lolita Jablonskiene (Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania); Geeta Kapur (curator, critic and writer, New Delhi, India); Michael Renov (Professor of Critical Studies and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, USC School of Cinema - Television, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA); Peter Osborne (Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, School of Arts, Middlesex University, UK); Midori Matsui (Critic and Writer, Yokohama, Japan); and Lee Weng Choy (Artistic Co-Director, The Substation, Singapore).
Australian participants include Charles Merewether; Rex Butler; Paul Carter; Howard Morphy; Antje Denner; Jonathan Jones; Chaitanya Sambrani; John Potts; Maree Delofski; Kathryn Millard; Mitchell Dean; Jane Goodall; Gay Hawkins; Ted Colless; Ed Scheer; and Laleen Jayamanne.
Sessions include 'New Art Histories'; 'After the Post-colonial and Empire'; 'Other Spaces and Indigenous Art Histories'; 'Documentary and the Archival'; 'The Event and Memory'; 'Popular Culture / Media Culture / Globalisation'; and 'Re-enactment and Performance'.
The symposium is co-convened by Dr Charles Merewther, Artistic Director and Curator of the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, and Associate Professor John Potts, Head, Department of Media, Macquarie University
For further information: http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au
Department of Media Seminar: 'Documentary and Subjectivity'
When: Thursday 6th July 12.00-1.30
Where: W6A Room 808
The Department Media will host a seminar with Professor Michael Renov on 'Documentary and Subjectivity'.
Renov's work has traced the move away from an aspiration to objectivity in much recent non-fiction filmmaking.
He has also looked beyond the traditional documentary, to contemplate modes of autobiographical practice including the essay film, the video confession and the personal web page.
Michael Renov is Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. He is the author of The Subject of Documentary (2004) Theorising Documentary (1993) and the Co-Editor of Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices (1996) and Collecting Visible Evidence (1999).
He is visiting Sydney to participate in the Department of Media/Biennale of Sydney Conference 'Rethinking Art History'.
A light lunch will be provided.
Inquiries to Associate Professor Kathryn Millard
Sydney Writers' Festival
When: 27th - 28th May
The Media Department is involved in several sessions at this year's Sydney Writer's Festival:
Neil Young Nation
Canadian Author Kevin Chong discusses his book and creative non-fiction with Willa McDonald. (Sponsored by the Media Dept.)
11am-12.30pm on Saturday May 27
True Crime
Justice and Police Museum "City of Shadows" curator and Macquarie University lecturer Peter Doyle joins journalists Tim Latham, Karen Kissane and Malcolm Knox in a discussion of the documenting of true crime.
1-2pm on Saturday May 28
Music
Murray Walding collects Australian music posters. Authors Shom Adaf, Kevin Chong and Peter Doyle talk about the art of writing their favourite songs.
4-5pm on Sunday May 28
Ancient and Modern
Stephen Muekce's book is an essay about Australian culture which acts as an invitation to think about what an Indigenous philosophy might be. Stephen Muecke, Ken Gelder and Larissa Behrendt will debate whether such a thing is possible. (Sponsored by the Media Dept.)
Spies Like Us
When: Saturday 10th December 10am - 4pm
Where: AGL Theatre Level 2 Museum of Sydney
A one day symposium on surveillance and espionage in contemporary culture and everyday life.
Keynote address by Professor Fredric Jameson.
Presented by the Department of Media, Macquarie University
Admission free but booking recommended
RSVP to Christine Jones by 7th December.
Email: cjones@scmp.mq.edu.au
Phone: (02) 9850 8786
Enquiries:
Dr Noel KingPhone: (02) 9850 8752
Emai: Noel.King@scmp.mq.edu.au
Finding the Signal in Noise
When: Sunday September 18th 2005 at 8.30pm
Finding the Signal in the Noise will be broadcast by ABC Radio National's The Night Air. For more information, visit abc.net.au/rn/arts/nightair.
The Audiotheque 2005: Finding the Signal in the Noise
When: Saturday 27th August. Doors open at 7.45 for an 8pm start
Where: ABC Studio 22, ABC Centre, 700 Harris Stree, Ultimo
ABC Radio National's The Night Air presents The Audiotheque 2005: Finding the Signal in the Noise.
Presented in conjunction with the Media Department at Macquarie University.
An evening of live audio experimentation with sound and visual artists:
Ben Byrne, Shannon O'Neill, Pimmon, Joyce Hinterding, Rik RUe, Gail Priest, Ivan Lisyak, Sherre Delys, and Fold.
Ghost Town: film, photographs, memory and the present
When: Friday October 8, 2004 9.30am - 5pm
Where: AGL Theatre, Museum of Sydney, Bridge St Sydney
A one day symposium bringing together writers, museologists, historians and filmmakers to discuss the magical attractions, potent anxieties, and various public and hidden prohibitions surrounding the uses of archive film and photography.
Ghost Town will feature a keynote address from writer Luc Sante, whose book Evidence (1992) led to a worldwide interest in the archive forensic photograph. Following landmark essays in that work, he has continued in subsequent writings to explore the aesthetics, ethics, philosophies and histories attending to and explicated by the archival photographic image.
Other confirmed participants include Dominique Angeloro (Sydney Morning Herald), Dan Angeloro (UNSW), Lindsay Barrett (University of Western Sydney), Matthew Connell (Powerhouse Museum), Susan Doyle (UTS), Caroline Mackaness, (Museum of Sydney), Alec Morgan (Macquarie University), Caleb Williams (Justice and Police Museum) and Peter Doyle (Macquarie University). Visit web site
Documentary: The Non-conformists
When: 10-12th September, 2004
Before Michael Moore there was Hara Kazuo, Japan?s ?outlaw filmmaker?. His films have been described as scandalous. And after 8Mile there was Brian Hill?s Feltham Sings, a musical documentary set in a prison. Derek Paget calls these the ?new hybrids?. Films that challenge our ideas about what documentary is and can be. visit web site
Review:
Real Time November 04
?In providing a forum which brought filmmakers and theorists together to debate questions of form, the organizers of The Non-Conformists symposium marked out a space that is sorely lacking in local film culture. All too often debates about the direction of our industry remain centred on funding structures and the market. Just as we need monetary structures to grease the mechanics of production, we need public forums in which we can ask questions and be surprised, intrigued and provoked by what film can do.?
Mixing the Lit
When: 4th September 2004
Macquarie University's Department of Media and the State Library of NSW present:
Outstanding Australian authors will gather for a lively discussion on the challenges of writing on subjects as diverse as sport, crime, relationships and gonzo street culture!
Sydney Writers' Festival
When: 22nd May 2004
Where: Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay. Cost $7/$5. Bookings 9250 1999.
Join us at this year's Writers' Festival where the Media Department is sponsoring two sessions - one on "Memoir" and one on "The Essay". Both sessions will be held on Saturday 22 May, 2004.
10am-11am "Talking Memory". Hilary Mantel's memoir, Giving up the Ghost, is a wry shocking autobiography of childhood, ghosts, illness and family. Inga Clendinnen's award-winning memoir Tiger's Eye is about illness, imagination and courage. They discuss the art of memoir, remembering and the idea of truth. Sydney Theatre, Walsh Bay. Cost $7/$5. Bookings 9250 1999.
1pm-2.30pm. Editor and writer Peter Craven, and novelists/essayists Amanda Lohrey and Hilary Mantel will be discussing the value of the essay as A literary form and ask why the essay hasn't flourished in Australia to the extent it has in the US. Dr Willa McDonald, Convenor B Media in Writing at Macquarie University, will be chairing the session. Bangarra Dance Theatre, Walsh Bay. Free. The Sydney Writers' Festival runs from 17-23 May. You can read the complete programme on their website.
Imaging the City
When: 3rd October 2003
A one day symposium on Friday October 3, bringing together artists, filmmakers, writers and academics and politicians to discuss Sydney, its representation and its cultural politics. The day will feature archival footage of aspects of Sydney that have been erased from cultural memory. There will be presentations by artists showing in the Primavera exhibition, as well as works by other Sydney-based artists. Speakers and presenters include artists Shaun Gladwell, Jonathan Jones, and Kirsten Bradley of Cicada (Primavera), Merilyn Fairskye and Anne Zahalka, and the filmmakers Kathryn Millard, Michael Bates and Alec Morgan. The symposium will be chaired by John Potts (Macquarie University) and Edward Scheer (UNSW).
Media Central
When: Monthly through 2002 - 2003
A series of Free Monthly Forums
devoted to contemporary media issues, presented by Macquarie University's Media Department. The forums fall under the umbrella of 'media' and are both interdisciplinary and accessible. The relaxed atmosphere encourages people to grab a drink at the bar while engaging with interesting speakers in public discussion on a broad range of topics.
Ludic Moments: Computer Games for the Time Being
When: 16th May 2003
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A one day conference on humanities-based research into computer games, held at Artspace, Sydney. Key-note speaker: Espen Aarseth (Norway). |
Soundscape
When: 25th March 2003
A performance and seminar by the eminent Canadian composer/designers, R.Murray Schafer and Hildegard Westerkamp.
Very Strange Weather
When: 19th November 2002
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Very Strange Weather is a one day symposium on new media art and media ecologies. This event starts with the premise that the media-scape behaves somewhat like the weather. |
Bollywood on Bondi
When: 10th October 2002
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Indian films, once inspired by western musicals, are now inspiring the rebirth of the form with films like Moulin Rouge. Carnivale is proud to bring a taste of Bollywood to Bondi . |
Technologies of Magic: Ghosts & Their Machines
When: 18th July 2001
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A one-day conference on technology, magic, media & art Technologies of Magic is an inter-disciplinary event focusing on the relation between technology and mysticism. |
Fact or Fiction
When: 8th July 2000
A non-fiction writers' festival
A one-day celebration of some of the latest and best non-fiction writing in Australia. Well-known authors and academics will come together to discuss the challenges of researching and writing about real people, places and events.