Synchronizing the Arts
International conference
At the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin

Hosted by Project B11
"Synaesthesie Effekte: Montage als Synchronisierung"
Sonderforschungsbereich 447 - Kulturen des Performativen
Freie Universitaet Berlin
Concept and organization: Robin Curtis, Gertrud Koch, Marc Siegel

For further information contact:
robin.curtis<at>fu-berlin.de
msieg47<at>zedat.fu-berlin.de
www.ici-berlin.org

This international conference marks the conclusion of a
research project on the performative and synaesthetic effects
of different cinematic elements (space, color, and kinetics/
motorics). A revaluation of montage emerged as a final, central
concern. If montage is conceptualized as synchronization, the
methods and techniques of producing coherence come to the fore.
How are the individual media levels synchronized? What are the
synaesthetic effects of such a synchronization? This conference
on the "Synchronization of the Arts" poses these questions in
regards to diverse aesthetic fields, such as cinema, music,
literature, digital video, and DJ culture.

Friday May 7, 2010 (please note the change to the programme!)

10:00 Gertrud Koch: Einführung

10:30 Anke Hennig - Das Rätsel der Gleichzeitigkeit.
Montagekonzepte der sowjetischen 1930er Jahre

11:30 Devin Fore: Beyond the Shot, Behind the Shot: Intransitive
Acting as Post-Montage Practice in Eisenstein's 'Old and New'

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Hermann Kappelhoff: Ausdrucksbewegung und
Zuschauerempfinden: Eisensteins Konzept des Bewegungsbildes

15:00 Georg Witte: Zwischen Bild des Menschen und Produktion
des Menschen. Zur sowjetischen Montage-Aesthetik

16:00 Coffee

16:30 Marc Siegel: People Will Talk: Joseph Mankiewicz's
Cinematic Gossip

17:30 Holger Schulze: Grids, Layers & Quantizations. Zur
Aesthetischen Synchronisierung des Sonischen

Saturday May 8, 2010

10:00 Barbara Wurm: Film-Partituren ­ Einuebungen ins
Synchronsehen (Vertov/ Kren / Kubelka)

11:00 Robin Curtis: Synthesizing the Material: Immersion
through Abstraction

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Thomas Y. Levin: Datamoshing: On the Aesthetic Politics
of Digital Video Compression Hacking

14:30 Sabeth Buchmann: Alles in einem Bild

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Branden Joseph: Biomusic

17:00 Diedrich Diederichsen: Dubbing Is A Must - Toasting,
Karaoke und andere Bricolagen einer sozialen Skulptur

18:00 Reception

Guests
Sabeth Buchmann (Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Wien)
Robin Curtis (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
Diedrich Diederichsen (Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Wien)
Devin Fore, (Princeton University)
Anke Hennig (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
Branden Joseph (Columbia University, New York)
Hermann Kappelhof (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
Gertrud Koch (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University)
Holger Schulze (Universitaet der Künste, Berlin)
Marc Siegel (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
Georg Witte (Freie Universitaet, Berlin)
Barbara Wurm (Basel/Berlin)

Admission is free; it is not necessary to register in advance
if you wish to attend.

ICI Berlin - Institute for Cultural Inquiry
Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8
10119 Berlin
Tel. + 49(0)30 473 7291-11