Summary: Bridging Cinema Theory and New Media Art: The Concept of the Dispositif We all know that cinema is changing in its encounter with new media forms, whether on the Internet or in the art gallery. But, just as new artworks and cultural practices of the digital age are compelling us to look back anew at cinema, so too cinema theory provides many powerful theoretical tools for understanding the mutations and expansions happening today. One such conceptual tool is that of the dispositif, which I am currently exploring as part of my Australia Research Council grant. This talk will introduce the concept and its uses, exploring it across a colourful and international range of cinematic and new media examples from the present and the past. BIO: Since 1979, Associate Professor Adrian Martin has combined work as a professional writer and film critic with a university career. He was film reviewer for The Age between 1995 and 2006. For his numerous books, essays and public lectures he has won the Byron Kennedy Award (Australian Film Institute) and the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing, and his PhD on film style won the Mollie Holman Award. He is the author of four books and hundreds of essays on film, art, television, literature, music, popular and avant-garde culture. He was recently awarded (with Professors Nicole Brenez and Meaghan Morris) an ARC grant for a large international study of intermedial cinema. Presented by Adrian Martin, Monash University.
