Studienprojekte 2012

The X MAGIS Spring School, organized by the Universities of Udine and Paris 3 in collaboration with the Universities of Amsterdam, Bochum, Malta, Barcelona-Pompeu Fabra, Frankfurt, Liège, London-Birkbeck, Milano-Cattolica, Paris Est, Pisa, Potsdam, Potsdam-Fachhochschule, Sunderland and CineGraph/Hamburg, as part of the activities of the International Ph.D. in Audiovisual Studies, will be held in Gorizia, from March 23 to 29, 2012. The School is articulated in four different Sections:

Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art. The Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art Section aims at increasing and deepening the dialogue between artists and scholars that have characterized the previous editions of the MAGIS – Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School. The Section intends to encourage the discussion on artistic practices and their analysis in the academic field, the ways in which artists narrate their work and their interpretation from the perspectives of art history and current art. The program will be articulated in master classes held by authors, curators, cultural operators, archives and managers of arts centers through talks and lectures delivered by scholars, along with screenings, exhibitions and performative events.

Post-cinema: Videogame/animation/comics. Nowadays technology provides us with new possibilities and new communication tools conform as multimedia systems and as members of the same “Software Culture”. Each one of the new media tools is invested with a “libidinization” and becomes the object of new desires. At the same time new media create new needs, causing further new desires. With new media and new desires that are associated with them, new narratives, new subjects of storytelling and re-workings of predominant popular culture (movies, comics, video games) are emerging. The purpose of the Post-cinema Section is to observe this process of formation of the new desire and investigate its roots and historical background.

Porn Studies: Cartography of Pornographic Audiovisual. The Porn Studies Section aims at analyzing the distinguishing features of national pornographies and the glocalization processes through which particular national pornographic practices are translated into transnational forms. Mindful of these methodological assumptions, the Section intends to encourage the following perspectives of study: 1. National and/or regional industries and economies; 2. National and/or regional styles and genres; 3. National legislative systems and censorship; 4. National and/or regional audiences and modes of consumption; 5. National and/or regional “auteurs” and stardoms; 6. Glocalization processes: from local to global and vice versa.

The Film Heritage. The Section is organized by University of Udine – La Camera Ottica Film and Video Restoration, CineGraph/Hamburg, Potsdam-Fachhochschule and Universität Potsdam. The Section will focus on four different periods and frameworks of film history in order to discuss specific processes, tools and apparatuses that articulated the identity, function and value of film as work, document and object in relation to its preservation and transmission: 1. 1910s-1920s. Establishing film as art; 2. 1920s-1940s. Building the Dispositifs; 3. 1950s-1960s. Changing Mode: Auteurship and Texts; 4. Beyond the Film Heritage: The Early Medical Cinema between Media Landscape, Art History and Archive Theory.