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THE
MOVEMENT
MOVEMENT
Histories of Microanalysis
at the Intersection of Film,
Science, and Art
June 24 – 26, 2021
Philipps-Universität Marburg (Virtual Conference)

Organizers:
Henning Engelke and Sophia Gräfe,
DFG-Heisenberg-Project
“Transdisciplinary Networks of Media Knowledge”

                               German Research Foundation
THE MOVEMENT MOVEMENT - Histories of Microanalysis at the Intersection of Film, Science, and Art - Philipps-Universität Marburg
THE MOVEMENT MOVEMENT                                                                       The desire to study the motion
                                                                                            of humans and other animals is
                                                                                                                                      “visible, yet unseen” phenomena
                                                                                                                                      that sometimes lasted for only frac-
                                                                                                                                                                              ing arts in the 1960s and 1970s
                                                                                                                                                                              across the disciplines of film and
                                                                                            deeply embedded in the tech-              tions of a second, film promised to     media studies, history of science,
                  Histories of Microanalysis at the Intersection of Film, Science and Art
                                                                                            nological, social and aesthetic           open a window onto the microtem-        visual anthropology and art history.
                                                                                            histories of film. For a long time, the   poralities and processuality of so-     It addresses questions of science
                                                                                            focus was on individual behavior          cial systems.                           policy, epistemologies of the mov-
                                                                                            and individual actors. This changed                                               ing image, scales of observation,
                                                                                            in the 1950s and 1960s when an-           But such analysis also reflected        and interrelations between analyt-
                                                                                            thropologists, psychologists, lingu-      back on the (micro-)temporali-          ical and aesthetic procedures. It
                                                                                            ists, sociologists and ethologists in-    ties of film itself. This point was     also addresses the question of how
                                                                                            creasingly turned to film to analyze      not lost on experimental filmmak-       film was integrated, in various ways,
                                                                                            movement as an element in sys-            ers like Hollis Frampton, who drew      into wider media assemblages/en-
                                                                                            tems of social interaction.               on studies of movement interac-         vironments, including notational
                                                                                                                                      tion in his theoretical and aesthet-    systems, viewing equipment, dia-
                                                                                            Informed by cybernetics, systems          ic reflections on film. The field of    grams, and artistic performances.
                                                                                            theory and structural linguistics,        interaction studies also overlap-
                                                                                            researchers such as Ray L. Bird-          ped with developments in con-           Considering the entanglements of
                                                                                            whistell, Gregory Bateson, Niko-          temporary dance and performance         cinematic movement, movement
                                                                                            laas Tinbergen and Adam Kendon            art, drawing choreographers like        interaction research and artistic
                                                                                            looked for patterns in what they          Irmgard Bartenieff and Forrestine       practices, the conference seeks to
                                                                                            regarded as the continuous, mul-          Paulay into the circles of communi-     open an historical perspective on
                                                                                            ti-sensorial stream of interaction/       cation research, while also influenc-   recent debates on media change
                                                                                            communication behavior. Film and          ing aesthetic approaches to dance       and the relocation of film.
                                                                                            later video became important tools        and performance.
                                                                                            to tap into this stream, to stabilize                                             The conference is part of the DFG
                                                                                            it and facilitate close attention to      This conference aims at exploring       research project “Transdisciplinary
                                                                                            minute details through repeated           these often overlooked intersec-        Networks of Media Knowledge” at
                                                                                            viewings of brief stretches of inter-     tions of social science, ethology,      Philipps-Universität Marburg.
                                                                                            action. Bringing to consciousness         experimental film and the perform-
THE MOVEMENT MOVEMENT - Histories of Microanalysis at the Intersection of Film, Science, and Art - Philipps-Universität Marburg
Thursday, June 24, 2021                                    Friday, June 25, 2021                                             Saturday, June 26, 2021
4:00pm – 4:15pm CET                                        1:00pm – 3:30pm CET                                               2:00pm – 4:30pm CET
Welcome Note                                               Session 2: Archiving Movement: the Göttingen                      Session 4: Movement, Art, and Cinematic
                                                           Institute for Scientific Film (IWF)                               Ecologies
     – Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
                                                                 – Igor Karim (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt),                       – Stefanie Bräuer (Universität Basel),
4:15pm – 4:35pm CET                                                Camera Movement as Exploration of the Body – or                     Electronics in Experimental Animation:
Introduction                                                       How Gestures Construct Personhood During                            Para-Cinematic Practices and Sites
                                                                   Documentary Filmmaking                                           – Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell University),
     – Sophia Gräfe and Henning Engelke
                                                                 – Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Series,             Row Roe Micro Your Tod:
       (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
                                                                   Comparison, Nature: Biology of Human Behavior and                   Hollis Frampton and the Currents of Time
5:00pm – 6:00pm CET                                                Cinematic Method in Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt’s Human              – Eszter Polonyi (University of Nova Gorica),
Session 1: Policies, Practices, and Experiences of                 Ethology Film Archive                                               Between Film and Graphic Arrangement:
Studying Microrealities                                          – Oliver Gaycken (University of Maryland), The Encyclo-               Thom Andersen’s Flicker
Keynote address                                                    paedia Cinematographica as Microanalytic Archive
                                                                                                                             Moderator: Yvonne Zimmermann
      – Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania),         Moderator: Malte Hagener (Philipps-Universität Marburg)           (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
       “Meticulous student of the real”: Goffman’s
                                                           4:30pm – 7:00pm CET                                               5:00pm – 7:30pm CET
        Lessons for Queer Studies
                                                           Session 3: Politics, Gender, and Therapy                          Session 5: Media of Microanalysis

9:00pm CET                                                       – Katie Joice (Birkbeck, University of London),                    – Michael Lempert (University of
Film Screening                                                     Mothering in the Frame: Cinematic Microanalysis and                Michigan), Small Talk: Media and the
Maring in Motion (Allison Jablonko, 1968, 16’) and foot-           the Pathogenic Mother 1945-67                                      Microscopic Science of Conversation
age from Allison Jablonko’s and Naomi Faik-Simet’s               – Whitney Laemmli (Carnegie Mellon University),                    – Seth Barry Watter (eikones, Basel),
recent research in Papua New Guinea                                When Words Fail: Movement Notation,                                Minimal Units and Good Vibrations:
                                                                  Trauma, and Therapeutic Practice in the                             The Work of Paul Byers
10:00pm – 11:00pm CET                                             Post-WWII United States                                    Moderator: Lena Trüper
Panel discussion: Movement and Dance Research in                 – Peter Sachs Collopy (California Institute of              (University of California, Los Angeles)
Papua New Guinea: Lived Experience,                               Technology), “Pass Through the Barrier of the Skin”:
                                                                                                                             7:45pm – 8:30pm CET
Politics and Pedagogy                                             Video and Microanalysis at the Boundaries of the Self
                                                                                                                             Closing Discussion
      – Allison Jablonko (Independent Researcher,          Moderator: Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen)
                                                                                                                             Please register here, until June 21, 2021:
        Keene, NH)                                                                                                           https://tinyurl.com/9fe29xnf
      in conversation with                                 8:00pm – 9:00pm CET                                               Further information:
      – Naomi Faik-Simet (Institute of Papua New Guinea    Artist Talk and Screening                                         https://tinyurl.com/4zy5nmjd

       Studies, Papua New Guinea)
                                                                                                                             Illustrations:
                                                                 – Hannes Rickli (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste),            Jacques Van Vlack: Filming Psychotherapy from the View-Point
Moderator: Henning Engelke                                         Videograms of Experimentation:                            of a Research Cinematographer. In: Louis A. Gottschalk/Arthur
                                                                                                                             H. Auerbach (ed.): Methods of Research in Psychotherapy.
(Philipps-Universität Marburg)                                     Animal-Human-Media Constellations in Biological           New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966.
                                                                   Research Films                                            Design: Anne Krieger

                                                           Moderator: Sophia Gräfe (Philipps-Universität Marburg)            Conference Assistants: Nora Neuhaus und Paul Egerlandt
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