Film & Visual Culture Research Seminar Series 2013

ALL WELCOME

Wednesday 27th February

DR ROSS WHYTE, ‘Perpetual Erosion: Impermanence in Audio-Visual Intermedia’; 3.30-5 Taylor A36

Wednesday 13th March

FIONA NOBLE (WITH MLRF ) ‘ “Loving Strangers”: The Lesbian (Im)Migrant and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema’; Taylor A15 3-5

Tuesday 19th March

PROF. HILDE VAN GELDER (University of Leuven), ‘On the Current State of Photography as Art’; 4pm, Room TBA

TIME AND PLACE OF THE FOLLOWING TO BE CONFIRMED
Wednesday 17th April
DR PAULA BLAIR; ‘Panopticonicity: Sites of Social Control in Willie Doherty’s Video Installations’

Wednesday 24th April
MR CHRIS HEPPELL, ‘Spectres of Barthes’ (WITH MLRF)

Wednesday 1st May
MR CALUM WADDELL, ‘The Verisimilitude of Vulgarity: The Distinct Style of the American Exploitation Film

Wednesday 8th May
DR SIMON WARD ‘Moving to/through Berlin’ (WITH MLRF)

OilScapes: Exhibition / Screenings / Workshop

Collaborative Project between Peacock Visual Arts and Film & Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen

Exhibition runs 22 September – 27 October

Curated by Dr Janet Stewart (Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen) and Zeigam Azizov (Royal College of Art).

Zeigam Azizov, Peter Fend, Melik Ohanian, Aga Ousseinov and Owen Logan explore connections between oil, geopolitics and visual culture with particular emphasis on connections between the environment and mobility. Featuring an audio collage with voices from the University of Aberdeen's Lives in the Oil Industry oral history archive.

OilScapes also features a number of events including Meet The Artists, Artist's Talk, a Workshop and OilScapes/Film screenings.

For the full programme click here

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