TIMECODE SEMINAR

Laurence Sterne and the world of hypertext

Wednesday 4th November, 6pm. ADMISSION FREE. ON LOCATION, National Media Museum

The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy is one of the great works of English literature. In this illustrated talk Patrick Wildgust, the curator of ‘Shandy Hall’- Sterne’s former house and now a museum to his life and works- discusses Sterne’s legacy in relation to new media. The talk will promote the radical nature of Sterne’s work, will review the various interpretations of his art and assess his place in 21st century culture.

Patrick Wildgust is the curator of Shandy Hall. His job is to look after the house and its collection of books, prints and paintings that refer to Laurence Sterne. Through exhibitions, lectures, teaching and consultancy Patrick promotes Sterne’s Writings in any way that he can. He was an adviser on Michael Winterbottom’s film about Laurence Sterne, A Cock and Bull Story.

TIMECODE
A Seminar in Media

Run by the Communications, Cultural and Media Studies research group in the School of Computing, Informatics and Media at the University of Bradford, this regular seminar series explores the increasingly important relationship between media, technology, culture and society.

For further information please contact Dr Mark Goodall (m.goodall@bradford.ac.uk)

Malcolm Lowry

 

CCM member Dr Mark Goodall is working on the festival to celebrate the birth centenary of the British writer Malcolm Lowry. Goodall is included in a new book on Lowry: Malcolm Lowry: from the Mersey to the World (LUP)

The festival, run by the Bluecoat in Liverpool, includes a major exhibition, film screenings, talks and a psychogeographical walk (hosted by Mark Goodall and Ian Hunter) around ‘Lowry’s Liverpool’ on the day of the dead.

Details of the festival are here:

http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/content/view/223/15/

MeCCSA 2009- Sleep Furiously

Sleep Furiously by Gideon Koppel

One of the films premiered at the CCM-organised MeCCSA 2009 Conference as part of the practice screenings has just been featured in:

The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/09/sleep-furiously-film-mark-ford

and the June edition of Sight and Sound as ‘Film of the Month’:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/4958

Music is by Aphex Twin.

Bradford Film Festival

Peter Whitehead with Mark Goodall

The British film director Peter Whitehead was given a retrospective at the 2009 Bradford Film Festival. He was also awarded the festival fellowship. Whitehead’s films including Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967), The Fall (1969) and Daddy (1972) were screened alongside the premiere of a new documentary about Whitehead By Any Old Light by Dyonisos Andronis. The retrospective was curated by Mark Goodall from the CCM group.

Photo: Jim Moran/Bradford Film Festival

TIMECODE Seminar- Steinski

(L to R: Mark Goodliff, Steve Stein and Mark Goodall at the National Media Museum, Bradford

On 28 January Steve Stein AKA Steinski gave a talk called ‘A History of Hip Hop’

Steve Stein- AKA ‘Steinski’- is an acknowledged master of the art of collaged sound design. Originally a computer programmer, Steve was one of the founders of New York Hip Hop. Many of the recordings he produced with Douglas DiFranco (AKA ‘Double D’) are classics of old school cut-up DJ work. His work influenced many subsequent sound designers such as DJ Shadow, Coldcut and the Avalanches. Steinski still produces mesmerising and complex collages of sound, often as live mixes. He discussed his life and work, providing anecdotes, working methods and examples from his key role in the invention of modern dance music and totally unique personal oeuvre.

The following day Steinski gave a masterclass at the School of Computing Informatics and Media:

Mondo film at the BFI

CCM member Mark Goodall writes about shock documentary films.

The BFI have recently screened a classic example of this- Jacopetti and Prosperi’s 1972 film Addio Zio Tom (Goodbye Uncle Tom). There is a video of the event here:

The BFI are screening another Jacopetti and Prosperi film Africa Addio (1966) on 25th April 2009:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/africa_addio

There is also a study session on mondo film with Mark Goodall and David Kerekes of Headpress:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/sweet_and_savage_the_world_of_the_mondo_film_0

Wild Eye- experimental film studies

The inaugural symposium for a new movement in experimental film studies took place on March 4th at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK).

The project seeks to develop a new approach to writing and thinking about film. The project is run by Mark Goodall from the CCM Research Group and Ian Hunter from De Montfort.

CCM member Ben Roberts delivered a paper as a contributionto the symposium. The keynote presentation was given by Ben Noys from Chicester University.

A network is being formed for those interested in working towards an experimental form of film studies. Contact Mark Goodall  m.goodall@bradford.ac.uk or Ian Hunter iqhunter@dmu.ac.uk if interested.

Upcoming Timecode Seminar: James Riley, ‘The Fall Dossier’

Title: ‘The Fall Dossier’
Date: 25-March-2009
Time: 18:00
Location: On Location, National Media Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ
Speaker: James Riley (Cambridge University)

James Riley is the archivist and literary executor for Peter Whitehead, one of Britain’s most unique filmmakers. James looks after Whitehead’s cinematic and literary collection. James’s task is to interpret Peter Whitehead’s ongoing research into the ‘word and the image’. In particular, this revolves around what is called ‘The Fall Dossier’ a journal/novel/notebook produced during the production of one of Whitehead’s most celebrated films. This seminar accompanies the 2009 Bradford Film Festival retrospective of Peter Whitehead’s work which will include a screening of The Fall.

Welcome

Welcome to the new blog of the University of Bradford’s Communication, Culture and Media (CCM)  Research Group.  A particular strength of our work is that it takes place within the School of Computing, Informatics and Media. The fact that researchers at Bradford in the field of culture, communication and media studies work so closely with colleagues in mobile telecommunications and computing is relatively unusual in UK institutions but is more common at institutions in the US and Europe. This arrangement enables and encourages innovative research in the field of new and mobile media, already showcased in research funding awarded by the European Community, UK Research Councils and the Arts Council. We believe that this close relationship between theory and technology is strategically vital to future research in the rapidly changing field of digital media. The School of Computing, Informatics and Media has unique facilities to support practice-based research, such as our 14-camera motion capture suite, which is usually used commercially to translate the movements of human actors into the actions of animated characters, but has also proved to be a useful research tool.

Research in the group is also engaged with questions of media, community and cultural identity. Recent research includes work on the contribution of Islam to British life and the role that city-centre big screens can play in supporting community media and local arts. We have current and recent research students working on subjects as diverse as the impact of media use on the lives of Kurdish women; the history of Polish national cinema; and the effect of digital distribution on cinema.