Lecture time
Apparently, May time is lecture time in Amsterdam. Lev Manovich (The Language of New Media) will be speaking in Paradiso on Sunday 17th, and Hubert Damisch (The Origin of Perspective; Cine-Fil) will lecture at UVA on Thursday 28th. Richard Grusin (Remediation) was supposed to talk on his new Premediation book on Monday 18th, but that has been cancelled, alas. Friday 29th, there will be a full day symposium around Damisch’ work, which promises to be attractive. At the same day, however, my former collague at the Netherlands Filmmuseum, Giovanna Fossati, will defend her dissertation at Utrecht University. Dilemma…