Fr., 14. Dez.
|UZH, RAA-E-27
Prof. Shane Denson: "Life to Those Pixels: Imag(in)ing Future Bodies of Film and Media"
Guest Lecture and workshop with Prof. Shane Denson (Stanford University). Open to all. PhD students can earn ECTS.
Time & Location
14. Dez. 2018, 14:00 – 18:00
UZH, RAA-E-27, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich, Switzerland
About the event
Shane Denson is Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research interests and teaching focus on questions of mediation and mediality, as he works with concepts of the post-cinematic, seriality, and human-technology relations.
His lecture, titled "Life to Those Pixels: Imag(in)ing Future Bodies of Film and Media", will focus on the discorrelation of post-cinematic images and the visual awe attached to “animation” in recent science-fiction films concerned with artificial creation—focusing especially on the artificial females in films like Her (2013), Ex_Machina (2014), and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). In reviews and critical discussions, the latter films are regularly compared to Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein and the many film adaptations to which it has given rise. Both Frankenstein and these recent films interrogate what I call the “anthropotechnical interface,” revealing the relation between humans and technologies to be one of mutual construction rather than unilateral control or domination. And both Frankenstein and these post-cinematic productions weave questions of gender centrally into this apparent deconstruction of the human subject/technical object dichotomy.
PhD students are either to use the module booking or register here. This event will be hosted by the doctoral program of the University of Zurich's English Department.
Schedule:
14.00-15.00 Lecture
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.00 Workshop (Discussion of Lecture & Texts)
17.00-18.00 Drinks & Food