Join us on Wednesday 4th October 2022 at 15.00 at Borough Road Gallery (LSBU) for our next research event with Kristoffer Gansing who will present The Cinema of Extractions – On Film as Infrastructure for Research. All welcome.
Why is Netflix so obsessed with Adam Sandler movies and why is Godard out of date in the era of the algorithmic image? Following up on a Desktop Video Essay which explores such questions, Kristoffer Gansing will present his research on the legacy of a “Cinema of Extractions”, where moving image technology is not seen as primarily a vehicle for film as cinema, but a continuously evolving technological and aesthetic infrastructure for film as research. The presentation aims to rewire how we see and artistically respond to the film medium’s connection to research in a way that speaks to our contemporary moment of images as part of networks of data extraction, analysis and optimisation.
Kristoffer Gansing is a media researcher and curator whose current work is on small-scale practices, the techno-aesthetics of infrastructure in audiovisual network culture and artistic research. He was artistic director (2011-2020) of the transmediale festival in Berlin and professor of artistic research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2020-23). He is currently Visiting Professor at Winchester School of Art. With Linda H. Ritasdatter he recently initiated the ongoing project A Video Store after the End of the World and his most recent publication is Homegrown, Outsourced, Organized (2023).
Reading:
“The Cinema of Extractions”, International Journal of Film and Media Arts, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022): GEECT Transversal Entanglement – Artistic Research in Film. PDF available at https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/article/view/7998.
Image: Screen grab by Kristoffer Gansing.