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London as Screen Gateway: The Case of CIRCA Art’s Public Projection Series
February 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
| Location: | 2420R Richcraft Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
Please join the MDS community for a talk by Malini Guha entitled: London as Screen Gateway: The Case of CIRCA Art’s Public Projection Series
In this talk, Guha will discuss the concept of ‘London as Screen Gateway’, which is the title of collection she recently co-edited with media studies scholar Elizabeth Evans. She will draw upon her own essay in this collection as an example of how the city functions as a ‘screen gateway’, which focuses on the case of CIRCA Art’s Public Projection series. This series, projected onto Piccadilly Lights in central London, both leverages and renews a longstanding understanding of screens as gateways to other worlds. More specifically, she will discuss some examples of projections by artists Cauleen Smith and Tony Cokes, which give us ways of rethinking the role public projection might assume in the formation of temporal publics in cities such as London.
Malini Guha is an Associate Professor in the Film Studies program. Her research interests are expansive, extending from a longstanding commitment to thinking and writing about film and the city as well diasporic and postcolonial cinemas to more recent turns toward the subject of world cinema and other moving image practices, including public projection. Her essays have been published in Feminist Media Histories, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, NECSUS, Screening the Past and the Journal of British Cinema and Television. Her first monograph, From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) is a study of cinematic London and Paris from the perspective of migration, globalization and the end of empire in a British and French context.