Distributing the Archive: The Futures of Cinema on the Internet

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Subject guarantor:

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Name of lecturer(s):

Eric ROSENZVEIG

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

an understanding of where cinema might be moving in the early 21st century.

Mode of study:

conversation

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

none

Course contents:

Distributing the Archive: The Futures of Cinema on the Internet large-scale piracy and its long-term effects, distributed movie archives and imaginary online databases, algorithmic image analysis and automated film editing, and the emergence of new alliances and institutions ready to extend the history of cinema into the 21st century. In this workshop, Jan Gerber and Sebastian Sebastian Lütgert propose that we should let machines watch movies, that we should make machines disassemble and reassemble film, and that it's machines that can help us to not only reimagine our individual practice of watching moving images, but also reinvent the general structure and function of a movie archive. And even though it sounds like one: at its core, this is not a technical question, but a matter of what type of politics we want to determine our personal and collaborative use of digital data. Theoretical talk and discussion and technical workshop on setting up open source video databases.

This afternoon workshop will include Eric Rosenzveig of the NARRA project and some of his collaborators (http://narra.eu).

Recommended or required reading:

take a look at http://0xDB.org, http://www.piratecinema.org/, http://0x2620.org and http://pad.ma please.

Assessment methods and criteria:

participation in discussion

Course web page:

Note:

Sebastian Lütgert & Jan Gerber will present a 90 minute talk on this subject at FAMUfest on Saturday 26.11.2016 at 16:00 at Cafe Jedna.

For a lengthier theoretical and technical discussion please join us for this module at FAMU on Friday 25.11.2016.

Sebastian Lütgert & Jan Gerber are founders of 0x2620, pronounced „two six two zero“, registered in Berlin as a non-profit agency for the advancement of the international exchange of information, and usually operates at the intersections of, or in the void between, art, politics and technology. Its activities include extensive research on intellectual property and piracy, regular events in Berlin, Bombay and beyond, like film screenings, conferences or workshops, the development of open source software tools and web applications, with a strong focus on the extraction of structured information from unstructures sources and the archiving of digital media circulating in unstable networks, and the production of both technological and

social infrastructure for the collaborative creation, maintenance and use of relatively large data sets.

Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
25.11.2016		14:00–17:30	Eric ROSENZVEIG	Učebna 6 Lažanský palác	Lecturers: Jan Gerber + S.Lutgert	přednášková par. 1
26.11.2016		16:00–20:00	Eric ROSENZVEIG		26/11/2016 at 16:00 at Cafe Jedna	přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans: