15 December 2021
Book Presentation: Silvia Casini, Giving Bodies back to Data: Image Makers, Bricolage, and Revintention in Magnetic Resonance Technology, MIT Press 2021.
8 December 2021
Lecture by Karl Kinsella (Aberdeen), Medieval Architecture and the Voice of God
10 November 2021
Reading Group “Art and Visual Culture”: Aby Warburg, Atlas Mnemosyne, 1929. Chaired by Hans C. Hones
3 November 2021
Lecture by Calum Waddell (Aberdeen FVC), Transnational Blaxploitation During South Africa’s Apartheid Era: The Unknown Story of the B-Scheme Subsidy.
27 October 2021
Reading Group “Art and Visual Culture”: Horst Bredekamp et al. (eds), The Technical Image, 2012. Chaired by Ulrich Stegmann (Philosophy)
13 October 2021
Lecture by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Strathclyde), Filming Fly Eggs: Time-Lapse Cinematography as an Intermedial Practice
Monday, June 7th, 2021
Live-Discussion: The Shared Heart Exhibition, with artists Bibo and Brian Keeley, streamed via the LLMVC YouTube channel. Online event, organised by Prof. Amy Bryzgel (with Dr Katya Krylova deputising as chair).
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Research seminar: Laura Sullivan (PhD student in Film and Visual Culture, Aberdeen): ‘”Knock, knock!” How practice-based research mines the digital archive’, online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Katya Krylova.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
Public seminar: Dr Elena Pollacchi (senior lecturer in Chinese Studies and Culture at Gothenburg University) ‘Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Filmmakers Representing the Real against a Booming Industry’, online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Talk by Dr Julie Rodgers (French Department at Maynooth University, Ireland): ‘”Mais qui va garder les enfants?” Postfeminist Retraditionalism in Sylvie Testud’s La vie d’une autre (2012)’, online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Áine Larkin. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Talk by Irish artist Will O’Kane: ‘Notes on Regional Painting’, about some works made within specific contexts in the mid-west and west of Ireland – a fitting event to mark St Patrick’s Day! Online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Áine Larkin. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Course seminar: ‘Alchemy Film and Arts: Moving Image Projects in Hawick with Rachael Disbury and Michael Pattison’, online event, with discussion chaired by Alan Macpherson. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021
Course seminar: ‘Delivering Socially-Engaged Art Projects: in Conversation with Claudia Zeiske, Director of Deveron Projects’, online event, with discussion chaired by Alan Macpherson. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Course seminar: Neil Hartman (Co-founder CineGlobe at CERN), “Science-themed Film Festivals”, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Public Lecture: Marilène Oliver (University of Alberta), followed by Q&A with Dr Silvia Casini, “Making Art with Medical Data”, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
Live Discussion: ‘Art | Work: In conversation with Rachael Disbury, Production Director at Alchemy Film and Arts’, online event, with discussion chaired by Alan Macpherson. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Friday, November 13th, 2020
Course workshop: Sara Stroud (North East of Scotland College), organised by Alan Macpherson, ‘What you need to know to make a video essay’, online event. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Public Lecture: Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck), “Loving the monster: David Lynch’s The Elephant Man as cultural history”, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Course workshop: Sara Stroud (North East of Scotland College), organised by Dr Silvia Casini, “Making a Film Using your Mobile”, online event. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Online film screening, talk & discussion: “Painting Music” with Kate Steenhauer, Jack Caven and Dr Andrew Starkey, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Áine Larkin. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
Public Lecture: Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck), “The Mystery of Robert Paul’s Aberdeen Film and Other Puzzles about Britain’s Neglected Pioneer”, Sir Duncan Rice Library.
Monday, February 10th, 2020
Film screening of A Moon for my Father, followed by Q&A masterclass with director Mania Akbari (in conversation with Dr Alejandra Rodríguez). Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.