| DATE: | Friday, December 5, 2008 |
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| TIME: | Colloquium: 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM Documentary film screening: 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM |
| PLACE: | Sproul Room, International House |
| FORMAT: | Luce Colloquium Series |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies |
The “New Media in China” Colloquia are a year-long series of programs sponsored by the Luce Foundation that will bring outstanding scholars, visual artists, writers, and documentarians from around the world to address various aspects of media in China, from the emergence of new media in early China, to modern print culture, the impact of the internet on journalism, and the use of new media to document contemporary social and cultural transformations.
In recent years, documentary has emerged as one of the most artistically vibrant, and socially engaged forms of cultural production, on both sides of the Taiwan straits. Drawing on the expertise of several of the most innovative documentarians currently working in contemporary China and Taiwan, this workshop will explore the possibilities and problems represented by new and alternative modes of documentary work, including digital, on-line, and sonic media. We will chart the emergence and significance of a powerful documentary impulse in contemporary China across various media, ask how new media might differ from old media, how artists can utilize new forms of ‘small-screen’ visuality, and how a medium such as sound recording might provide a means of registering the profound social and spatial changes of recent years.
Agenda
Friday, December 5, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Sproul Room, International House
Panel I: Sound as a Documentary Medium
Moderator: Andrew Jones, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Words and Sound in New Taiwan Documentary
Guo-Juin HONG, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Stereo Worlds as Everyday Art
YAN Jun, Sound Artist and Poet
China Sound Unit: Theory After Praxis
YAO Dajuin, Artist
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: Sproul Room, International House
Panel II: Visual DocumentaryModerator: Andrew Jones, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Ceci n'est pas un documentaire: Truths, Lies and Online Videos
Paola VOCI, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Otago, New Zealand
The Moving Image between Theater and Gallery
Jean MA, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
The Practice and Politics of Documentary Film in Taiwan
Mickey CHEN, Documentary Film-maker
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Location: Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle Hall
Documentary Screening and Discussion with the Director
Memorandum on Happiness
Director, Mickey CHEN
