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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2><b>WHEN:04.16.08 |
5-7 PM | <br>
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<b>WHERE: 32-155 (note date and location)<br>
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<b><i>Remembering Los Angeles in the Digital Age: Pat O'Neill's The Decay
of Fiction<br>
</i>Edward Dimenberg<br>
</b>Los Angeles artist and special effects virtuoso Pat O'Neill filmed
The Decay of Fiction (2002) in the landmark Ambassador Hotel, once the
center of Hollywood celebrity culture. His film blurs the boundaries
between architectural investigation, urban documentation, and aesthetic
exploration. At once a poetic homage to classical film genres, it is also
a suggestive indication of how remembering the city is changing in
response to new technologies. Edward Dimendberg is Associate Professor of
Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies, and German at the University of
California, Irvine. He is author of Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity
(2004), co-editor of The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (1994), and currently
serves as Multimedia Editor of the Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians.<br><br>
Comparative Media Studies at MIT<br>
MIT-GAMBIT Game Lab<br>
NE25-385<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139</font></blockquote></body>
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