Guest lecture: Geocinema

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
373MGC Z 1 12S English winter

Subject guarantor

Lukáš LIKAVČAN

Name of lecturer(s)

Lukáš LIKAVČAN

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The aim is to introduce student to application examples in arts research and geopolitics of Chinese platforms and infrastructure of recording, depicting, modelling and simulating planet Earth.

Mode of study

Lectures by invited guest instructors, group discussions, skill sharing.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Attendance at the course lecture „Case Studies from the History of Visual Culture I: Visual and Philosophy Culture of Depicting Earth.“

Course contents

This module presents guest lectures of the Geocinema duo, Asia Bazdyrieva a Solveig Suess. Geocinema currently is preparing a experimental documentary in which satellite systems and other apparati for Earth research represent one large planetary camera.

Recommended or required reading

Gabrys, J. (2016) Program Earth. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kurgan, L. (2013) Close up at a distance. Mapping, technology, and politics. New York: Zone Books.

Parks, L. (2005) Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual. Durham: Duke University Press.

Assessment methods and criteria

This module is graded based on attendance and lecture participation.

Note

Solveig Suess is an independent filmmaker, researcher and designer working between the UK and China. Her research finds its urgencies in uneven relations across geographies of circulation, drawing on environmental and postcolonial lines of inquiry.

Asia Bazdyrieva is an art historian and researcher with a specific focus on the ideological underpinnings that are embedded in the spatial organisation and ecologies of public spaces. Studied analytical chemistry in the University of Kyiv and art history in The City University of New York as a Fulbright grantee. Her research interests span across histories of modernist utopias to trace the liminal spaces, thresholds and grassroots expressions that question the grand narratives. Her recent work includes curatorial research at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York) and IZOLYATSIA. Platform for Cultural Initiatives (Kyiv); as well as public talks and writing for art magazines.

Schedule for winter semester 2019/2020:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
02.12.2019 10:40–12:15 Lukáš LIKAVČAN Room No. 6
Lažanský palác 		lecture parallel1

Schedule for summer semester 2019/2020:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

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