Reformat: Obsolescence and Materiality in the History of Film and Video

The workshop will address notions of obsolescence and materiality with the goal of developing aesthetic and media-historical concepts for the technological era of film and video. The investigation engages with time-dependent forms of moving images, their duration and deterioration, as well as historiographic models, which might account for film and video images’ material transition and/or disappearance over time.
Contemporary practices of reformatting sounds and images are considered as negotiations of passing materialities, which introduce new models of recollection and (re-)finding. How much can moving-image works change before the aesthetic and theoretical objects become something different, or before they become the immediate past?

PROGRAM

Lecture Hall, The Getty Research Institute

10:00 am Coffee

10:30 am
Ulrike Hanstein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Welcome and Introduction

11:00 am
William Kaizen (Northeastern University)
The Apotheosis of Video Art

Barbara Filser (Kunstuniversität Linz)
Revisiting Videospace: Television as Reimagined in the National Center for Experiments in Television's Videographic Recordings

12:15 pm Lunch Break

1:30 pm
Edward Dimendberg (UC Irvine)
Captive on the Carousel of Time? Historicizing the Slide Projector

James Tobias (UC Riverside)
Complex Objects – Three Demonstrations

2:45 pm Coffee Break

3:15 pm
Exhibition Tour "Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films", GRI Galleries
Hosted by Glenn Phillips (GRI, Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art)

Seating is limited. Please RSVP by May 20, 2014 to GRIeventsgetty.edu.

The Getty Research Institute, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles