Wed 1st Atticus Narain

Wed 1 March

Atticus Narain

ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENTRESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES (Goldsmiths College)

Friday 3rd March Exploding Cinema

NEXT EXPLODING CINEMA SHOW:

Friday 3rd March
The Hatcham Social Club
Hall Entrance (on right hand side)
369 Queen's Road
New Cross
London SE14

DOORS 7.30pm. £4 entry (no concs)

Buses: 36, 171, 53
Tube: New Cross Gate
Rail: New Cross Gate
or Queens Road Peckham (6 mins from London Bridge)


For full directions including maps go to:
http://www.explodingcinema.org/nextshow.html

To submit a film or to find out more about the Exploding cinema go to our
website at

www.explodingcinema.org
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"SCREENINGS FOR CINEPHILES

"SCREENINGS FOR CINEPHILES

(ie.: Everybody is welcome!)

TUESDAYS 6-8 PM

MB: SMALL HALL/Cinema Goldsmiths College

In connection with courses at the Centre for Cultural Studies, in particular with reference to postcolonial studies, a series of films will be shown to which everybody interested in cinematic productions is cordially invited.

While the sequencing tries to convey a trajectory from depiction of colonial/post-colonial settings and representations of 'Otherness' (five weeks until reading week) to the implied criticism of one's own society (for which Japanese productions will be shown from week 7 to week 11), the films are in the first instance selected for general interest as forms of entertainment (with a kick!).

Short introductory comments will be given by the organizer (Prof. K.P. Koepping, CCS)

SCHEDULE

Feb.21: Imamura : 'The Pornographer' (or: An Introduction to Anthropology)

Feb. 28: Miike: 'Visitor Q'

March 7: Imamura: 'Ee-ja-nai-ka'

March 14 Tsukamoto: 'Tetsuo'

March 21 Tsukamoto: 'Snake of June'

Fri 24 Feb 11am-1pm Dhiraj Murthy

Dhiraj Murthy will present and discuss his film Dilli Breakbeat, in room 137a at Goldsmiths (MB) from 11am till 12.30 or so. All welcome.

"The film Dilli Breakbeat explores Asian electronic music in India’s capital - a city which the vast majority of Delhiites agree has changed remarkably over the last 10-15 years. The film starts from this premise and explores the Asian electronic music scene within its home, which somehow, despite its rapid modernisation, still has deep connections with its rich history. Perhaps the Asian electronic music scene and the individuals involved are in many ways a reflection of this Delhi? (ref)"
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23 Feb 5.30 Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti will give a lecture in the Goldsmiths Sociology lecture Series:

'The Politics of Death in the Age of Bio-Power'

23 Feb 2006, Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre at 5.30 pm

Everyone welcome
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Wednesday 22nd of February Michael Richardson

On Wednesday 22nd of February at 6PM in MB 137, at Goldsmiths
SEPRO will be hosting a talk by
Michael Richardson on
"Aspects of King Kong".
Please join us!

MICHAEL RICHARDSON is currently visiting professor at Waseda University,Tokyo. His principal interest is in processes of communication, whetheracross cultures or across intellectual disciplines. His doctoral researchwas concerned with the relationship between anthropology and surrealismand the different ways in which they approach the question of culturaldifference. He is also interested in questions of representation,especially in relation to film, especially in the ways that meaning isformed and transmitted. He is the author of The Experience of Culture(Sage Publications, 2001), and Georges Bataille (Routledge, 1994). He has also written many articles on aspects of surrealism and has edited severalcollections of surrealist writings, including The Dedalus Book ofSurrealism (Dedalus, 1993-4), Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean (Verso, 1996) and, with Krzysztof Fijakowski, Surrealism Against the Current (Pluto, 2001). His most recent book, Surrealism and Cinema, will be published by Berg next month.

9-11 March Indonesian Film Fest at SOAS

Cultural Studies/Cultural Industries in East Asia 17 & 18 March 2006

SYMPOSIUM – 17 & 18 March 2006
What a Difference a Region Makes
Cultural Studies/Cultural Industries in East Asia
A Symposium organised by the Japanese Cultural Studies Programme of Birkbeck and the Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies Forum of Goldsmiths, in cooperation with the Japan Foundation (London).

What a difference a region makes! The popular culture and consumer productindustries of East Asia are moving beyond national boundaries and enjoyingregional and global success as never before. But are flows of Korean TVdramas and mobile phones, Japanese anime and cosmetics, Taiwanesecomputers, Chinese films, and Hong Kong pop music producing transnational regional culture, nationalistic backlash, or both? And do they result from reduced trade barriers and a lessening of nation-state power, or are they driven by national policy?Running parallel with these phenomena has been the rise of Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries research and approaches in East Asian academic culture. As well as deploying these approaches to analyze the regional, we also ask what difference it makes to use them in an EastAsian context. What does it mean to do Cultural Studies in East Asia?

Venue: Conference Room, Japan Foundation London, Russell Square House, 10-12 Russell Square, London WC1B 5EHAttendance Fee: For one day: £10; £5 (students).For both days: £15; £8 (students)

Registration: As space is limited, please register by 14 March by sendingan email with your name and contact details to the administrator, KeikoBailey (k.bailey@bbk.ac.uk) or phone on 020-7631 6113."

Wed 15th Feb -Shaun Moores

VISITING LECTURE (at Goldsmiths)

mb 137 4-6pm

Shaun Moores,

(Professor of Communications, University of Sunderland)

Media Uses and Everyday Environmental Experiences: A Positive Critique of Environmental Geography

This paper offers a critical yet sympathetic engagement with a body of work produced some years ago in the area of phenomenological geography, assessing the relevance of that work for the study of media uses in daily living. It is argued that many of the concepts and methods employed by phenomenological geographers could now be applied in the field of media and communications, with the aim of developing what might be called a phenomenological investigation of media uses and environments.

Shaun Moores is the author of a number of influential books in Media Studies, including Interpreting Audiences (Sage 1993) Satellite Television and Everyday Life (John Libbey 1996) Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society (Edinburgh University press 2000) and most recently Media/Theory (Routledge 2005). Besides his position at Sunderland, he has also been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Rome and Melbourne.

Department of Media and Communications

Goldsmiths College - University of London - New Cross - London - SE14 6NW Tel: 020 7919 7600

Email: media-comms@gold.ac.uk http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/media-communications/index.html

SOUTH LONDON PACIFIC Tiki Lounge Cocktail Bar

So, its a party, I am gonna be 45, and it starts at 7pm (the very happy hour actually starts at 6, so come early) on the 16th of Feb (next thursday) and goes till 12. Dancing etc.

Its in Kennington. Link for (fun) details and directions..

SOUTH LONDON PACIFIC Tiki Lounge Cocktail Bar

Wednesday 8 February Under Occupation: University Life in Palestine

Under Occupation: University Life in Palestine

A one hour talk and discussion session about the conditions in which university workers and students are living in Gaza and the West Bank.

Speakers:

Dan Richards: co-ordinator of Friends of Birzeit University association, talking about the Right to Education campaign in Palestine

Ahmed Masoud: a Palestinian student from Goldsmiths, talking about his experiences as an undergraduate in Gaza.

Wednesday 8 February – 12 to 1pm Small Hall/Cinema, Main Building

All welcome
Sponsored by Goldsmiths Association of University Teachers branch

Sat 11- Feb The Sonic Space Ship (SSS)

The Sonic Space Ship (SSS)
3D multi channel sound demonstration at the Goldsmiths SOUND PRACTICE Conference

3pm to 4pm, Saturday 11th February 2006, Recital Room, Goldsmiths Music Department

Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths Screen School, Media and Communications Dept) http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/media-communications/staff/henriques.php

Martyn Ware (The Illustrious Company) http://www.illustriouscompany.co.uk/index2.html

Nick Gillieron (Paul Gillieron Acoustics) http://www.pgacoustics.org/

The Sonic Space Ship (SSS) is a multi media exhibition apparatus - for immersive, intensive and interactive sensory stimulation. It is equipped with the Paul Gillieron Acoustics state of the art Surround AV sound system. Nick Gillieron demonstrates this new sixteen channel hardware and software, Martyn Ware illustrates some of the possible musical content for the system, and Julian Henriques discusses how it will be deployed to deliver the 3D sonic environment for the SSS. He will also outline the design principles of the complimentary 3D field of visualisation. This explores how auditory principles, such as harmony and rhythm, can be extruded onto the surrounding screen. The aim is to apply acoustic patterning to the medium of the moving image (as distinct from a literal sonification of images, or the visualisation of sound). The SSS is currently in development for part of e Arts Catalyst Space Soon exhibition at the Roundhouse, this September.

SOUND PRACTICE 2006
Organised by UK & Ireland Soundscape Community and the Music Department, Goldsmiths College, Saturday 11th & Sunday12th February 2006

The UK & Ireland Soundscape Community (a regional branch of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology) was launched in 2001 with a major international conference at Dartington Hall (Sound Practice: the 1st UKISC conference on sound, culture and environments). The objectives of the conference were: to nurture our understanding and awareness of the soundscape; to report on past, current and future soundscapes; to advance the emerging interdiscipline of soundscape studies. Since then the scene has developed dramatically, and with wide ranging new initiatives and directives, yet with arguably limited scope, soundscape issues are now more firmly on the map than ever. SOUND PRACTICE 2006 provides an opportunity to take stock and reflect on many of the activities that have shaped the scene over the past 5 years. It will also provide a forum in which to discuss the future of soundscape studies and pool new approaches and practices.

PROGRAMME
Saturday, 11th February
9.30am [Small Hall]
Introduction
John Levack Drever (Goldsmiths College)
Introduction: UK's Pre-History of Acoustic Ecology

10.00am [Small Hall]
Key Note 1.
Catharina Dyrssen (Chalmers School of Architecture, Göteborg, Sweden)
Model-to-model. On Design Based Experimentation With Sound Environments.

10.45am
Coffee Break

11.00am [Small Hall]
Developing Policy Context And Potential Futures
Max Dixon (Greater London Authority)

Ximena Alarcón (De Montfort University)
An Interactive Sonic Environment Based On Commuters' Memory Of Soundscape:
A Case Study Of The London Underground (work in progress)

Tsai-wei Chen (Goldsmiths College)
On the Way Home: Taipei Sojourners' Sonic Constellations in London

Peter Cusack (London College of Communication)
Soundscapes of London, Beijing and Places Between

12.45pm - 1.30pm
Lunch

1.30pm [Great Hall]
Phonography Concert
Yannick Dauby, Nick Fells, Pete Stollery, Bill Thompson, Lisa Whistlecroft,
Robert Worby & Philp Tagney

3.00pm [Recital Hall]
Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths College), Nick Gillieron (Paul Gillieron
Acoustics), Martyn Ware (Illustrious)
The Sonic Space Ship (SSS)

4.00pm [Small Hall]
Louise K Wilson (University of Derby)
A Record of Fear: Sounding Out the Cold War

Dr Paul Moore (University of Ulster)
Cross (refernc)ing the Namib

Tony Whitehead (RSPB), Becca Lawrence (Sonic Arts Network)
Sonic Postcards: A Sonic Arts Network National Education Programme Using
Our Sonic Environment As A Springboard For Creative Arts

Simon Keep
Radio Taxi

5.45pm - 6.30pm [Small Hall]
Key Note 2.
Nicolas Rémy (CRESSON: Centre de Recherche sur l'Espace Sonore et
l'Environnement Urbain, École d'Architecture de Grenoble, France)
To Design Ambiences

7.00pm
Concert [Great Hall]
Donald Bousted, Disinformation, John Levack Drever, Rob Godman, John Lely

Installations during Saturday [Locations tbc]
Thanos Chrysakis (Goldsmiths College)
Thomas Kitazawa (Goldsmiths College)
Robin McGinley (Interactive Agents)
Neil Webb

Sunday 12th February
8.00am
Sound Walk of Deptford.
[Meet by front of the Goldsmiths College Library. We will finish near at a
local establishment for those who may be interested in a hot breakfast.]

9.30am [Small Hall]
Andre Castro (Middlesex University)
Suite Vénitienne- Tuesday

Mikhail Karikis (Slade School of Fine Art)
The Acoustics of the Self

Tom Rice (Goldsmiths College)
Stethoscapes: Soundscapes Of The Body

11.00am
Coffee Break

11.30am [Small Hall]
Ruth Hawkins (Goldsmiths College)
Bodies, Distances, Double Recordings

Adrian Newton
Finding An Audience For Soundscape Composition: Working With Community-Based
Organizations

Anita McKeown (Art Services Un-incorporated)
Memphis 45s

1pm
Lunch

2pm [Small Hall]
Joe Banks
Rorschach Audio

3pm
Concluding Remarks & Discussion for UKISC members. [Small Hall]

Installations during Sunday [Locations tbc]
James Bull (Goldsmiths College)
Thomas Kitazawa (Goldsmiths College)
Dave Lawrence (Middlesex University) & GÈNIA (Markson Music Centre)
Mary Yacoob (Central St Martins College of Art)


Useful Information
All events are free!
Closest Underground Station is New Cross Gate or New Cross.

Campus Map:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/?view=student

Music Department:
http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/music/
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