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Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 7 to welcome James Hodge  (Northwestern) for his talk, " Lateral Time. "   Daniel Morgan (UChicago) will provide the response. The CFS will be held  at DePaul's Loop Campus in the  Daley Building at 14 E. Jackson Blvd., Room LL 102, using the State St. entrance   located at   247 S. State . Thursday, November 7 at 6:30pm James Hodge , Northwestern  "Lateral Time" Respondent :  Daniel Morgan , UChicago Hodge describes his talk as follows: This talk comes from the second chapter of my book project, Animate Archaeology: Digital Media and the Aesthetics of History.   In the book I argue for the novel significance of animation for the aesthetic expression of historical temporality in the age of new media.  This talk examines the concept of lateral time, which I define as the temporal regime native to processes operating beyond the threshold of human experience.  Build...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 8 to welcome Jim Collins (Notre Dame) for his talk, " Portable Media Devices and Playlist Culture ." Max Dawson (Northwestern) will provide the response. The CFS will be held, as always, in the Flaxman Theater, Room 1307 of the School of the Art Institute's building at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Thursday, March 8 at 6:30pm Jim Collins , Notre Dame "Portable Media Devices and Playlist Culture" Respondent: Max Dawson , Northwestern Collins describes his talk as follows: My paper will reflect on some of the issues raised by Professor Eivind Røssaak raised in the insightful paper he presented to the Chicago Film seminar this past November("The Performative Archive: The Archival Turn in Film, Art and New Media Practices”) but I will be talking about how portable media devices-- iPods, smart tablets, and ereaders --function as personal digital archives. What kind of “performativity” do we as amateur c...

Please join the Chicago Film Seminar at 6:45 pm on Thursday, November 17 to welcome Eivind Røssaak (U.Chicago-visiting) for his talk, " The Performative Archive: The Archival Turn in Film, Art and New Media Practices ." Domietta Torlasco (Northwestern) will provide the response. The CFS will be held, as always, in the Flaxman Theater, Room 1307 of the School of the Art Institute's building at 112 S. Michigan Ave. Thursday, November 17 at 6:45pm Eivind Røssaak , Associate Professor at the National Library of Norway and visiting professor at U.Chicago "The Performative Archive: The Archival Turn in Film, Art and New Media Practices" Respondent: Domietta Torlasco , Northwestern Røssaak describes his talk as follows: Paradoxically the archival turn in question happens as notions of the archive expand beyond the sphere of the archives proper, to philosophy, art, film and new media practices. This paper will present two interlinked aspects of the archival turn. On t...