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Schedule
Friday, March 30th
  3:15 Session 1 Cathedral of Learning (CL) 232
Words of Welcome
  3:30-5:00 Post-Neo-Avant-Garde: The New Visual Artists
  Alice Kuzniar The Post-Pop Hauntings of Bjørn Melhus
  Rembert Hüser QWERTY Cinema: Christoph Girardet/Matthias Mueller's The Phoenix Tapes (1997)
  5:30-6:30 Session 2 CL 232
  Thomas Elsaesser The Future of “Art” and “Work” in the Age of Vision Machines: Harun Farocki
  Reception Cathedral of Learning 501
       
Saturday, March 31st
  8:30-9:00 Breakfast CL 501
  9:00-10:30 Session 3 CL 232
  The Post-Cinematic and the Avant-Garde
  Randall Halle Tendency/Event/Movement: Social Impact and Pipilotti Rist
  Richard Langston Schlingensief’s Peep-Show: Post-Cinematic Spectacles and the Public Space of History
  Coffee CL 501
  11-12:30 Session 4 CL 232
  Established Filmmakers and the Continuing Significance of the Avant-Garde
  Phillip Watts Straub and Huillet and the Noise of Democracy
  Lucy Fischer The Remains of the Day: Agnès Varda, The Gleaners and the Art of Salvage
  Lunch
  2:00-3:30 CL 232
  Popular Culture and the Avant-Garde
  Marcia Landy The Argento Syndrome and the Fourth Dimension
  Adam Lowenstein Cinema, Gaming, Interactivity: Between eXistenZ and Un Chien Andalou
  Coffee CL 501
  4-5:30 Session 5 CL 232
  After the Cold War: Avant-Garde and (Post)Socialism
  Vladimir Padunov From Experiment to Mainstream: Parallel Cinema and Necrorealism, 1984-2007
  Reinhild Steingröver From Mainstream to Experiment: Experimental Film at DEFA around German Unification
  Refreshments CL 501
  6:00-7:00 Session 6 CL 232
  Reflections on the Avant-Garde: A Conversation with Filmmaker Birgit Hein


 


The Conference is generously supported by a grant from the University of Pittsburgh’s Faculty and Research Scholarship Program, the European Union Center of Excellence, the Department of German, and the Film Studies Program. The organizers wish to thank Dean N. John Cooper, Associate Dean Nicole Constable, Professor Lucy Fischer, Professor Clark Muenzer, and Professor Alberta Sbragia for their engagement. Additionally we appreciate the support of Juliane Wanckel and Lee Grice at the Goethe Institute, New York.