After a good birthday weekend, it is time to get back into work as the semester kicks in. On the reading list for this week is Francesco Casetti’s Theory, Post-theory, Neo-theories: Changes in Discourses, Changes in Objects (in the Journal Cinemas, XVII, 2-3, July 9, 2007: 33-44). This reading follows the talk he gave lastContinue reading “A Week in Reading (& Work)”
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Doctoral Seminar Series
As part of the inaugural year of the ‘Doctorat en Etudes Cinematographique’ at Universite de Montreal, the faculty have put together a doctoral seminar series. Theoretically designed to be ’round table discussions’, today’s was more a meeting and debate of the minds with a group of interested spectators. I have to say, that as someoneContinue reading “Doctoral Seminar Series”
Thinking About Space
I am reading Edward Casey’s Giving a Face to Place in the Present: Bachelard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Irigaray (from The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History) and so far, I am impressed with a few of the ideas he sews together – something I wish I had read before I wrote my MA thesis,Continue reading “Thinking About Space”
Augmented & Mixed Reality
The second doctoral seminar that I am taking this semester is called “Mobile Cinema” (and it is cross listed as Art Actuel [french] I believe). I took this course thinking it would focus on the line of thinking that the cinematic experience is altered through mobile technologies (before I saw the course description below). Fragmented viewing impactingContinue reading “Augmented & Mixed Reality”
Cinema as “social imagination”
My first text that I have to read for the Doctoral Seminar is La Theorie du Cinema: Enfin en crise – which is a volume from the journal CiNeMAS. I have to read the opening chapter by Roger Odin. As a film theory virgin, I had no (real) idea about what film theory was about.Continue reading “Cinema as “social imagination””
Picking up where I left off
As I head into my PhD, I have been put to task to re-read my MA thesis, and take note of any ideas I had that did not get the chance to be fully developed (due to time, space and depth of my theoretical understanding at the time it was written). I am nervous toContinue reading “Picking up where I left off”
One foot out the door
The other one still in the room. I have been home for a week now and I have done little, except playing some really addictive (and geriatric) solitaire games I downloaded many eons ago. I met with my new advisor and talked about the upcoming year, projects and people. The meeting was energizing, finally getting toContinue reading “One foot out the door”
Finally Found a Home (PhD!)
I am very happy to say that I have just received an email informing me that I have been accepted to Universite de Montreal’s newly minted PhD en “études cinématographiques“. I will be working with Dr. Bernard Perron as my primary advisor. Working with Dr. Perron, I will be able to continue on a GameContinue reading “Finally Found a Home (PhD!)”
Convocation 2007
This morning was my MA Convocation ceremony from Concordia University (Montreal, QC) – although about 3 hours long (4 if you count having to be there an hour early), the ceremony was nice, and the air was not too hot. My mother travelled from Nova Scotia to be here for it, and woke me upContinue reading “Convocation 2007”
Experience or Artefact?
Having been driven by my own experiences for the last few years, it somehow feels artificial to try and find the ‘next’ game to play to work on. One of the things that I struggled with was (and still is) defining the scope of my work. I keep struggling with the question of whether IContinue reading “Experience or Artefact?”
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