This talk with Chris Pomiecko will examine the history of male physique photography and films which climaxed as an expression of hidden gay male desire in the 1950s and 1960s.
A brief introduction to the work of the great documentary photographers, and then, for each of the 12 students, a chance to produce a documentary photo project.
Hannah Rose Shell screens and discusses her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the phenomenology of camouflage.
Christoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The Family of Man became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
Vicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
Is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or a (valuable) symptom also of changes in our ideas of history, causality and contingency?
Did computers learn to see by modernity's most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?