Program

Welcome Address by Adam Lowenstein

Director of Film Studies

Bodies and Antibodies

Moderator: Marcia Landy, Film Studies

• Anthony D’Agostino (Fordham University.), “The Telepathic Body: Psychic Suffering in David Cronenberg’s Scanners”
• Erin Yerby (Columbia University), “Inner Theaters and Spirit Clouds: the Sensuous Extension of the Body in Mediumship”
• Swagato Chakravorty (Yale University), “Cinéma du corps/Corps du cinéma: Body and Texture in Denis, Dumont, Grandrieux”
• Veronica Fitzpatrick (University of Pittsburgh), “The Walls Have Hands”

Historical Remains

Moderator: Mark Lynn Anderson, Film Studies

• Andrew Vielkind (Yale University), “Image as Prosthesis: Alexander Gardner’s Stereographs of the American Civil War”
• Brenna M. Casey (Duke University), “Lookout Points: Scenic Vistas, Lynching Photographs, and the American Imaginary”
• Erin Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Necrophagy at the Lynching Block”
• Karly-Lynne Scott (Northwestern University), “Looking Through the Weeping Glass: Haptic Visuality and the Ethics of Looking at Strange Bodies in the Medical Museum Documentaries of the Brothers Quay”

Sensorium in Motion

Moderator: David Pettersen, Film Studies, French Languages and Literatures

• Adam Cottrel (Georgia State University), “Life at These Speeds: Cadence as Aesthetic Texture”
• Eloise Ross (La Trobe University (Melbourne)), “Beneath the Waves: Sound Beyond the Screen”
• Sean O’Reilly (Harvard University), “Beyond the Screen: The Role of the Benshi in Japanese ‘Silent’ Cinema and Its Echoes in Popular Culture”
• Vera Koshkina (Harvard University), “Revolution in the Archives: Color, Scale and Perceptual Play in Pervorossiiane”

Medium/Format/Marker: La Jetée in Multiples

The Interactive Image

Moderator: Mark Paterson, Department of Communications

• Debjani Dutta (University of Southern California), “Choreographing Spaces: K-pop Flash Mobs and Fan Activism”
• Laurel Ahnert (Georgia State University), “Haptics vs. Touch: A Comparative Analysis of Laura Marks and Jean-Luc Nancy Applied To Interactive Documentary”
• Tess McClernon (Concordia University), “Vanishing Acts: Theorizing Obsolescence and Tactility in Only Lovers Left Alive”

Im/material Mediation

Moderator: Jane Feuer, Film Studies

• Aurore Spiers (Columbia University), “Media Physicality and Invisible Materiality: A Study of TV Bodies and Hyper- Embodiment in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Poltergeist, and Benny’s Video”
• Fran McDonald (Duke University), “Laughter in Motion: The Affective Possibilities of Canned Laughter”
• Kelsey Cameron (University of Pittsburgh), “#interactivity: Television, Touch and the Distracted Viewer”
• Nicole Coffineau (University of Pittsburgh), “Psycho Ethics: Douglas Gordon and Social-Technic Perception”

Surface Tension

Moderator: Neepa Majumdar, Film Studies

• Daniel Carnie (University of Pittsburgh), “The Intimacy of Surface Life in Under the Skin”
• Lauren Cramer (Georgia State University), “A Hip-Hop Joint: An Architectural Approach to Hip-Hop Visual Culture”
• Todd Jurgess (University of Florida), “An Index to What?: The Glitch as a Haptic Interface with Digital Impenetrability”
• Troy Rhoades (Université de Montréal), “More Than Just Pixels: Experiencing Colours, Vibration, and Contrast in Digital Images”

Closing Remarks by Nancy Condee