Speculative Archives, A Screening of AI Films

Film and Media Studies Program presents a screening of various AI Films including THE DREAM OF ABEL GANCE, CHRONICLES OF THE BLACK SUN, and 512x512 among others. Curated and presented by Antonio Somaini, Visiting Professor on Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard. A panel discussion will follow the screenings, after which there will be a reception in the lobby!

Co-Sponsored by the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center

Location: HQ L01, lower level, 320 York St

Bio: Antonio Somaini is Professor in Film, Media, and Visual Culture Theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. In 2013, he was a fellow at the ZfL (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung) in Berlin, and in 2014-15 Senior Fellow at the IKKM (International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy) in Weimar. His research deals on the one hand with the film, media and montage theories of the 1920s and 1930s (Béla Balázs, Walter Benjamin, Sergei M. Eisestein, Siegfried Kracauer, László Moholy-Nagy, Dziga Vertov), and on the other with the history of the concept of “medium.” He is the author of two books (Visual Culture: Images, Gazes, Media, Dispositives, published in Italian in 2016, and Eisenstein. Cinema, Art History, Montage, published in Italian in 2011, English translation forthcoming in 2017) and the editor of editions in Italian, French, and English of writings by Walter Benjamin, Sergei Eisenstein, László Moholy-Nagy, and Dziga Vertov). Together with Naum Kleiman, he has edited the English edition of Eisenstein's Notes for a General History of Cinema (Amsterdam UP 2016).