What follows is a report back on the event on Sat 20 Sep at the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra and today in the theatre in room G04 in building 29 at University of Wollongong. To my mind, both of these events have been a success but in different ways. The black room at UOW was …
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CONE & BULB – event info
When: Saturday 20 September, 6.30-8pm Venue: Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra Attendance is free, bookings required: Register here [Anthony McCall’s Line Describing a Cone (1973) presented at CEMENTA Festival in Kandos, 2015. Photo by Alex Wisser] CONE + BULB – an evening of landmark Expanded Cinema is a presentation by Australian artist group Teaching and …
A draft manual about making manuals…
We recently received an email requesting advice on how to make a users manual for the re-enactment of a historical artwork. here are a few notes…
What scholars of manuals have to say
As we finalise an article about the manual for Horror Film 1 and the potential to use DNA as a storage medium for the manual versions and additional components, we have gone looking for literature about manuals. I (Louise) have learnt that making procedures is called ‘procedural discourse’. David Farkas writes about this back in …
Horror Film 1 – Users Manual (version 1.0)
Louise and Lucas from TLC have been working towards various versions of a users manual for Horror Film 1 (1971). In this blog post, we’ll share a few versions of the manual, which are still at an early stage.
Let’s talk about expanded cinema – Poster session SEAPAVAA 2023
Dr Louise Curham from Curtin University’s iSchool starts a dialogue with audiovisual archivists of South East Asia about expanded cinema. Here’s the recording of this talk: And here’s what I say (not quite identical but pretty close) Hi everyone. Thanks very much for inviting me to be part of SEAPAVAA 2023. I want to …
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Antics Hair Microcinema
The old Antics Hair Salon in Canberra will come to life again in January and February 2023 as Canberra’s newest microcinema. What: film screening/film performance event Where: 8 Petrie Plaza, Civic, Canberra When: 8-930pm Sat 14 Jan Tickets: $10 donation Over the past couple of years a group of Canberra artists interested in projection, reflection …
Louise Curham on Otherfilm Festivals 2006-8
Reposting here an article featuring TLC’s Louise Curham speaking about her memories of the Otherfilm festivals in Brisbane, from the REMIX website. OtherFilm are a collective dedicated to experimental, avant-garde and expanded forms of art. Recollecting OtherFilm in Brisbane. The first event I went to was at Queensland College of the Arts in one of …
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Audiovisual Archiving – radio discussion
Thursday 27 October 2022 is UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, a celebration and reminder of the importance of archiving and preserving our audiovisual heritage. To mark this event we’ve brought together a panel of experts to tell us about the exciting, creative and challenging field of AV archiving– Louise Curham, (Lecturer and researcher at …
Three conjectural models for records people from ‘Tending the archive’
Three conjectural models for archives There are three key ideas in my (Louise Curham’s) PhD thesis Tending the Archive that are relevant for the recordkeeping community. That community is broadly conceived as everyone interested in facts and how they get produced. Conjectural model 1 – authenticity There are three parts to my conjecture about authenticity. …
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