Sensation – Perception – Mediation

University of Szeged (Hungary), June 7-9, 2012
Szeged Building of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
6720 Szeged, Somogyi u. 7.

Wednesday, June 6

19.00- Informal pre-conference reception at the

Department of Visual Culture and Literary Theory (2, Egyetem street)

 

Thursday, June 7

10.00- Registration

11.30-12.00 Welcoming Remarks - Sándor Csernus, Dean of the Faculty of Arts

12.00-13.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chair: Izabella Füzi

• Mary Ann Doane (University of California, Berkeley, USA):
  Cinematic Scale, Perspective and the Modern Sublime

13.10-14.40 Lunch Break

14.40-15.50 Session 1: ON DISTANCE AND SPATIAL PERCEPTION

Chair: Mary Ann Doane

• György Fogarasi (University of Szeged, Hungary):
  Teletrauma: The Notion of Distance in Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry
• Todd Berliner (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA):
  On the Perception of Continuity in Mainstream Cinema

15.50-16.20 Coffee Break

16.20-18.40 Session 2: EARLY FILM THEORY: PRESENCE, MOVEMENT, EXPERIENCE

Chair: Zsolt Győri

• Izabella Füzi (University of Szeged, Hungary):
  Movement, Temporality, and Medium Specificity in Early Hungarian Film Theory
• Eszter Polonyi (Columbia University, New York, USA):
  Invisible Man: Microcinematography in Early 20c Europe
• Erica Carter (King’s College, London, England):
  The Visible Woman in Béla Balázs
• Beja Margitházi (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
  The Role of the Body and the Senses in the Different “First Contact” Narratives

19.00- Reception

 

Friday, June 8

9.00 -10.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chair: Todd Berliner

• Jens Schröter (University of Siegen, Germany):
  Optical / Visual / Non-Optical Media – the Complexity of Technical Images

10.10-10.40 Coffee Break

10.40-12.25 Session 3: NEW MEDIA, DIGITAL AESTHETICS, INTERACTIVITY

Chair: Jens Schröter

• Zoltán Dragon (University of Szeged, Hungary):
  The Augmented Subject: Technological Interfaces of Self, Skin and Geography
• László Tarnay (University of Pécs, Hungary):
  Simulating Perception in New Media
• Christoph Ernst (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany):
  The Mediation of Perception in Mythological Thinking

12.25-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-16.20 Session 4: SENSING AND READING IMAGES

Chair: Ágnes Matuska

• Ágnes Pethő (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania):
  Cinema and the Phenomenology of “Becoming” Intermedial
• Zsolt Győri (University of Debrecen, Hungary):
  The Sensation of Being Alive
• György Endre Szőnyi (University of Szeged, Hungary):
  Seeing: Natural or Conventional? After the Iconicity Debates

16.20-16.50 Coffee Break

16.50-18.35 Session 5: CORPOREALITY/THEATRICALITY

Chair: Gábor Tamás Molnár

• Ágnes Matuska (University of Szeged, Hungary):
  “Shelter in the Presence of Onlooking Strangers”: Perception and the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor
• Ákos Seress (University of Kaposvár, Hungary):
  The Cognitive Turn in Theatre Studies
• Annamária Hódosy (University of Szeged, Hungary):
  Misrecognition: Minority Report on the Postmodern Condition

19.00- EVENING PROGRAM - Dinner and drinks at Tisza River Café Club

 

Saturday, June 9

9.00-10.10 KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chair: György Endre Szőnyi

• Joachim Paech (University of Constance, Germany):
  Film Was Never the Same

10.10-10.40 Coffee Break

10.40-13.00 Session 6: CONTEMPORARY FICTION AND MEDIATED PERCEPTION

Chair: György Fogarasi

• Ronan McKinney (University of Sussex, England):
  Real Time: DeLillo, Gordon, Hitchcock
• László Sári B. (University of Pécs):
  Transgression and Intermediality in Contemporary American Minimalist Fiction
• Katalin Sándor (Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania):
  (Re)collecting Sensations in Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
• Gábor Tamás Molnár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest):
  Figuration and the Experience of Fiction

13.00-13.30 Closing Remarks

17.00- Selection from Hungarian Experimantal Shorts -
screening at the art cinema Grand Café (18, Deák Ferenc street)

• Section Gang (Pályamunkások, István Gaál, 1957, 4′)
  Black-and-white film study with metric montage.

• Tuesday (Kedd. Márk Novák, 1963, 20′)
  A burlesque study of a man who drank enough to lose self-control.

• Elegy (Elégia. Zoltán Huszárik, 1965, 20′)
  This “film poem” consists of montages of horses from the dawn of time to the modern times, from cave paintings to horse races, mourning the loss of these creatures and their service to mankind, starting as free animals and becoming slaughterhouse victims.

• Self-Fashion Show (Öndivatbemutató. Tibor Hajas, 1976, 14′)
  Ordinary people from the street chosen by the director are put in front of the camera in a natural as well as instructed position. During the show they are characterized and given instructions by the director.

• Private History (Privát történelem. Gábor Bódy, 1978, 27′)
  This sound-image collage uses fragments of found footage to evoke the historical period of the ’20s and the ’30s in Hungary.

• Shine (Ragyogás. János Tóth, 1982, 36′)
  A poetic experimental film with visual reflections on early film making and self-reflections on cinema.