[Nettime-nl] JvE: Thinking through Affect

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

> Thinking through Affect
>  A two-day symposium on body, affect, emotion and moving images
> Friday 8 – Saturday 9 September Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
> Day one
> 10:30
>  registration
> 11:00
>  introduction by Ils Huygens (Theory Department, Jan Van Eyck Academie)
> 11:30
>  Barbara M. Kennedy (Film Studies School, University of Staffordshire)
>  Thinking ontologies of the mind/body relational: fragile faces and 
> fugitive graces in the processuality of creativity and performativity
>
> 12:15
>  Monika Bakke (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan)
>  I’m too sad to tell you…the story of the Grizzly Man
> 13:00
>  Lunch break
> 14:00
>  Steven Shaviro (DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University, 
> Detroit)
>  Emotion Capture : Affect in Digital Film and Video
> 14:45
>  Maaike Bleeker (Theater Studies, Amsterdam University)
>  ‘Hit Me, if You Can’; Martin, Massumi and The Matrix
> 15:30
>  Break
> 16:00
>  Lesley Stern (Dept of Visual Arts, University of California, San 
> Diego)
>  Motility, transference and conversion: an exploration of cinematic 
> affect as exemplified in Black Narcissus
> Day two
> 11:00
>  Norman Bryson (Professor of Art History, University of California, 
> San Diego)
>  Affect, Sensation, Empiricism
> 11:45
>  Tarja Laine (Media and Culture Dept, University of Amsterdam)
>  Eija-Liisa Ahtila's affective images in The House
> 12:30
>  Lunch break
> 13:30
>  Tim Stüttgen (Theory Dept. Jan Van Eyck)
>  Bodies that shatter: watching porns with Williams, Deleuze and 
> Preciado. A reconsideration of Linda Williams´ term ‘body-genre’
>
> 14:15
>  Anna Powell (Sr Lecturer in Film and English, Manchester Metropolitan 
> University)
>  Jack the Ripper’s Bodies Without Organs: affect under the scalpel in 
> From Hell
> 15:00 break
> 15:15
>  Erin Manning (director of The Sense Lab, Concordia University, 
> Montreal)
>  How Leni Riefenstahl moves through fascism: from biopolitics to 
> biograms
> In Deleuze and Spinoza’s view the body is not considered a substance 
> but a kinetic and dynamic thing that is organised by “a capacity for 
> affecting and being affected.” Affect exists only as relation between 
> two bodies and transgresses the borders between self and other, 
> between subject and object. Affect takes place on an automatic level 
> not consciously registered unless it is actualized into feeling or 
> emotion. According to Brian Massumi affect operates on a ‘superlinear’ 
> level that is registered by the skin and the visceral senses as 
> ‘intensity,’ virtual and unqualified experience.
>
> This symposium will closely draw on theories on visual media, 
> especially cinema and media studies, since technological media 
> confront us with forms of perception that are non-intentional and 
> a-subjective, not subdued to the laws of representation and meaning. 
> They can create a shortcut to sensual and bodily experiences and have 
> the capacity to intensify, alter or distort the affective dimensions 
> of an image, sound, voice, face or gesture. Since the meaning and 
> intensity of an image are not necessarily congruent with each other, 
> affect can be and is easily exploited for political or commercial use.
>
> Apart from the philosophical and aesthetic discourse on affect and 
> embodiment, recent findings in empirical psychology and neurobiology 
> have shown that the effects of affect are real and point to an 
> intelligence of emotions, as well as an intelligence of the body; they 
> operate on a different level than that of the rational mind. How do 
> non-conscious automatic reactions affect and shape the viewer’s 
> experience? How can we write and think about affect? Which concepts 
> from philosophy and art theory but also from science can be useful? 
> And how does this level of corporeal experience resonate with 
> conscious emotions and with processes of recognition and 
> interpretation?

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