Studienprojekte 2013

XI MAGIS –Gorizia International Spring School | Gorizia, March 15-21, 2013

The XI MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School, organized by the University of Udine in collaboration with its network of partners– the Universities of Amsterdam, Birkbeck-University of London, Bochum, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Frankfurt, Liège, Malta, Milano-Cattolica, Paris III, Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée, Pompeu Fabra-Barcelona, Potsdam, Pisa, Sunderland and CineGraph/CineFest-Hamburg, GRAFICS/Université de Montréal, Associazione Culturale Maiè – is articulated in the following four sections:

Cinema & Contemporary Visual Art: Media Arts and Intellectual Property Rights
This section will focus on the relationships between the intellectual property rights and contemporary artistic practices. As matter of fact, on the one hand, the limits imposed by intellectual property rights affect distribution, access, dissemination policies as well as production and exhibition practices of audiovisual contemporary artworks. On the other hand, since the beginning of the 20th century a deconstructive disposition toward the concepts of authoriality, originality and authenticity could be found in the contemporary artistic practice. From the 1990s, the advent of digital technologies in art production emphasized these tendencies which tend to increase the complexity of the relations between art production, reception and ownership.

The Film Heritage: Film between Accessibility and Governance
The section is organized by University of Udine – La Camera Ottica Film and Video Restoration, CineGraph Hamburg, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam & University of Potsdam (European Media Studies). As a follow-up to the outcomes of the the last edition, this year the section aims at studying how society influences the production and the consumption of movies. In particular, the section will focus on the historical and contemporary ways of providing and getting access to film, with an eye to the manifold interdependences between film, culture and politics. Particular attention will be devoted to the following topics: censorship, copyrights, laws, subsidies and finances, up to the broad and more explicitly bio-political issues.

Post-Cinema/Videogame/Animation/Comics: A New Syntax of Desires II
Within the contemporary mediascape, new media as well as old ones (videogames, animation, digital cinema, comics etc.) are increasingly invested with a “libidinization process” and have become the object of new forms (and syntaxes) of “desire”. New media create in fact new needs, consequently giving rise to new desires. The aim of this section is to analyse this process by trying to answer the following questions: What kind of desire is generated by these new (and renewed) media and by their (new) forms of expression? What is the function of desire in a technological, gamificated, software-addicted medial society? How is the body engaged by the dynamics of desire within such a context?

Cartography of Pornographic Audiovisual: Eurasian Pornography
This section aims at mapping the distinguishing features of national pornographies and the glocalization processes through which particular national pornographic practices are translated into transnational forms. In particular, this year the section is dedicated to the analysis of the development and the specific characters of Eurasian pornographies, with a particular focus on the following issues: eurasian pornographic industries and economies; eurasian pornographic genres and styles; eurasian legislative systems and censorship; eurasian “auteurs”, commercial/mainstream producers and stardoms; modes of consumption, intellectual property and piracy within Eurasian audiences.

Kooperation & Koordination:
Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer