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We are meeting at KW at 14h on Tu Oct 25th. (instead of class meeting at UdK.) to see the show. Pay special attention to ground floor and attic (Anger!).
Access is free for people who join the group. Thanks to curators of the show and KW.

Sat, Oct. 15th,
20 Uhr, Arsenal Cinema
The City Cine-Chronicles 2:
Inseln der Erinnerung oder: Was macht ein Architekt den Krieg über im Seddinsee?
Thomas Elsaesser präsentiert Filme seines Großvaters Martin Elsaesser.
First meeting for seminar: Mo 17th, 10h R 115
 

Open Call – CDA-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production

CDA-Projects Grant is accepting applications to support the production of artistic research projects aimed at critical knowledge production with a transdisciplinary approach. 10,000 Euros will be awarded based on the decision of an international jury for the selected project to be completed by July 2012.
CDA-Projects will also support a publication after the completion of the project, which will reflect the research and production process. The publication will be completed in the following six months and launched in December 2012.
CDA Projects is a commercial gallery in İstanbul, which represents established and emerging contemporary artists from Turkey and abroad.
Application deadline: November 30th, 2011.
more at: http://www.cda-projects.com/projects-grant.asp

October 18th, R115, 14-18h

Class meetings Tuesdays 14h-18h. Check wiki for exact dates, location R115.

Tutorials Mo 14-17h R98.

Office hours Mo 13-14h R98

Seminar Mo 10-13h. Exact dates on wiki, location R115.

“…past surpassing catastrophe”

Seminar on contemporary media theory and visual cultural studies Mo, 10-13h R115.
This seminar is an introduction to cutting edge media theory as well as a practical exercise run in the context of the project “Living Archive” by Arsenal and Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek. [1] We will produce works in the scope of their project, which aims to provide access to the archives of Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek (huge collection of independent films) in order to actively use it.
This practical part of the project will be supplemented by readings around recent media theory relating to dispersion, dissemination, the global circulation of digital artefacts and it´s political economies, the status of digital image/objects, the 3D military entertainment complex, the danger of archival historicism, and the withdrawal of tradition past surpassing catastrophe.
You will be required to give a presentation on one of the texts. This is mandatory, i.e. non-negotiable and a requirement for taking part in the project.
Authors of texts to be read will include: Brian Massumi, Suely Rolnik, Cory Arcangel, Seth Price, Jalal Toufic, Thomas Elsaesser,  Arielle Azoulay, Georges Didi-Huberman and many more.
A detailed syllabus will be posted soon and texts uploaded in the beginning of October.
 

Congratulations everybody to a great opening and a great night!
All spaces have turned out great. Well done!
Vincent made this leaflet, thanks for this! Anybody who took pictures, send them to me, pls, I´ll post them. (especially the embarrassing ones).
Rundgang-heft

in front of casino, R98. We´ll have a tour of all the spaces and say good bye to the people leaving us as well as thank Yara, who, for admin reasons, cannot continue being a tutor. Bring drinks pls.

A casino will be squatting R98 from 14.7-17.7.
You know, casino, like horse-betting, bingo, blackjack, shady characters who’d trick you out of your last piece of underpants (but pay your cab-ride home), gasoline and all the shenanigans.
other than that:
two dark rooms with perfect screenings. expect human bird cages, military reenactors, making of´s, national dummys, intense interiors, extended memory, anti-aging video,  the labour of  love and reverse shitters among many other inspiring time based items in 98 and 248. There is a topical focus on the urgent question of how to squat US real estate and art galleries and a special appearance of “Schatz im Silbersee”, harald reinl, around 1972!!!
a see-all white cube in 115 and  musical mystery performance in 114.
Thank you to Amir, Kristof, Till, Alex, Vincent, Flavio and Yara for organizing!

THE FALLS PETER GREENAWAY, GB 1980 Peter Greenaways telefonebook is structured mysteriously rich around the entries beginning with fall. take a 3 h look with jeff and his friends , see whether you can dismantel the layers of code around the Violent Unkown Event VUE. greenaways longest and last experimental narration before he started to work with “actors” in his first feature the draughmans contract. very well order especially suited for birdwatchers surprise: soundtrack by… michael nyman.