Dom It or 2012 Programme

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Performing New Media, 1890-1915

Twelfth International Domitor ConferenceUniversity of Brighton, 2012

Programme

MONDAY 18th June 2012

8:30 Pastries and beverages; registration

9:00 Welcomes by Anne Boddington (Dean of Faculty, Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton);Frank Gray (Director, Screen Archive South East); Scott Curtis (President, Domitor)

9:30 Panel 1: Sallis Benney TheatrePerforming Non-FictionPanel Chair: Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)Gregory A. Waller (Indiana University), Circulating and Exhibiting Moving Pictures of the Australian

Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913)Rositza Alexandrova (University of Cambridge), Cinegrammes from the Ilinden Uprising

Rielle Navitski (University of California, Berkeley), Mixtures of Ferieand Document: SensationalTheater and True-Crime Films in Rio de Janeiro and So Paulo, 1908-1913

10:30 Break

10:40 Panel 2: Sallis Benney TheatreMusic, Opera, and SongPanel Chair: Frank Gray (University of Brighton)Beatrice Birardi (Societ Italiana di Musicologia), From Chamber to Cinema: The Music by Carlo

Graziani Walter for Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei(Italy, 1913)Bernhard Kuhn (Bucknell University), Intermediality Italian Style: Operaticality and Metareferentiality in

the Cinema of the Early 1910s

Jaume Radigales (Universit Ramon Llull, Barcelona) and and Isabel Villanueva (Universitat Internacionalde Catalunya, Barcelona), Le rle de lopra dans le cinma primitif : tude des casAnupama Kapse (Queens College, City University of New York), Song and Dance in the Indian Silent

Film

Panel 3: Boardroom at Grand ParadeExhibition beyond Theatres and Cinemas

Panel Chair: Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar)Jon Burrows (University of Warwick), Automatic Recreation: Early Cinema and the Amusement

ArcadeOliver Gaycken (University of Maryland), Denizens of the Deep: F. Martin Duncan, Natural History

Filmmaking, and the Brighton AquariumOksana Chefranova (New York University), The Screen in the Garden: Moving Image Shows in Moscow

circa 1900

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Panel 4: Sallis Benney TheatreMusic, Colour, and SoundPanel Chair: Denis Condon (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)Christopher Natzn (National Library of Sweden), Such Music Cannot Be Regarded as Real or Genuine

Art: Swedish Cinema Musicians in 1908-1909Mlissa Gignac (Universit Paris VII), Le son dans les annes 1910 : un exemple dautonomisation

progressive des filmsJennifer Peterson (University of Colorado, Boulder), Lyrical Education: Music and Color in Early

Nonfiction FilmJoshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews), Colour as Performance in Visual Music, Film Tinting, and

Digital Painting


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Panel 5: Boardroom at Grand ParadePicture Personalities

Panel Chair: Frdric Tabet (Universit Paris-Est)Charles OBrien (Carleton University), Actors Performances in the Griffith Biograph Films, before and

after the Move to CaliforniaLaura Horak (Stockholm University), Performing the Film Director: Mauritz Stiller and Vingarne

Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London), Performers On Stage and Now on ScreenChris ORourke (University of Cambridge), In the Flesh: Personal Appearances and the Picture

Personality in Britain before 1915

2:30 Break

2:50 Panel 6: Sallis Benney TheatreHistoriography, Nation, and PerformancePanel Chair: Natascha Drubek (University of Regensburg)Philippe Gauthier (Universit de Montral/Universit de Lausanne), Lhistoriographie de la performance

dans le cinma des premiers temps et lmergence de lhistoire universitaire du cinmaGunnar Iversen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Performing New Media and the

Creation of National Identity: Krusslich and Kpke in Norway before 1910Stephen Putnam Hughes (University of London), Performing Authority at the Cinema in Victorian India

4:10 Break

4:40 Panel 7: Sallis Benney TheatrePerformance and PedagogyPanel Chair: Sarah Dellmann (Utrecht University)Marina Dahlquist (Stockholm University), Health on Display: The Panama Pacific Exposition (1915) as

Sanitary VenueFrank Kessler and Sabine Lenk (Utrecht University), The Kinoreformbewegung Revisited: Performing the

Cinematograph as a Pedagogical Tool

David Williams (independent scholar), The Letchworth Experiment, 1913-1917Kaveh Askari (University of Western Washington), The Artists Studio on Display: Workspace asEducational Space

6:00 Evening Event: Blackwell book reception

TUESDAY 19th June 2012

8:30 Pastries and beverages

9:00 Panel 8: Sallis Benney TheatreVaudeville and Comedy

Panel Chair: Charlie Keil (University of Toronto)Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame), McCay and Keaton: The Intermediality of Vaudeville,

Animation and Slapstick CinemaMaggie Hennefeld (Brown University), Performing Film Form: Vaudeville Theater and Early Motion

Picture ComedyGwendolyn Waltz (independent scholar), 20 Minutes or Less: Short-Form Film-and-Theatre Hybrids

Skits, Sketches, Playlets, & Acts in Vaudeville, Variety, Revues, &c.Pierre Chemartin and Santiago Hidalgo (Universit de Montral), Learning Film Performance through

Comics


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Panel 9: Room G4Transnational Corridors: Southeast Asia, the Americas, Scandinavia

Panel Chair: Philippe Gauthier (Universit de Montral/Universit de Lausanne)Nadi Tofighian (Stockholm University), Circuit of Commerce and Cinema: Singapore and the Southeast Asian

Film MarketJoel Frykholm (Stockholm University), From Movie Palace to Media Spaces: New Perspectives on the

Exhibition Contexts of the Multi-Reel Feature Film, 19131915John Fullerton (Stockholm University), Reframing the Panorama in Mexico: Early Actuality Film and

Nineteenth-Century Lithographs and PhotographsAnne Bachmann (Stockholm University), Trajectories between Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm: What

Norwegian Male Stars Brought to Swedish Biograph, 19131915

10:20 Break

10:40 Panel 10: Sallis Benney TheatreOld and New Media

Panel Chair: Joshua Yumibe (University of St Andrews)Andr Gaudreault (Universit de Montral) and Philippe Marion (Universit de Louvain), Dun tournant

de sicle lautre : lanimation restaureWanda Strauven (University of Amsterdam), The Performing Screens of Early CinemaAndrea Haller (Deutsches Filminstitut), Presenting New Media of the Nineteenth Century in the

Context of the Twenty-First-Century Museum: The Case of the German Film Museum in FrankfurtKatherine Groo (University of Aberdeen), Cut, Paste, Glitch, and Stutter: Remixing Early Film (History)

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Panel 11: Sallis Benney TheatrePerforming Resistance

Panel Chair: Jennifer Peterson (University of Colorado, Boulder)Natascha Drubek (University of Regensburg), Unruly Projectionists and Censorship in the Cinema of

Tsarist RussiaDenis Condon (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), Offensive and Riotous Behaviour? RegulatingIrish Cinema Audiences in the mid-1910s

Alison Griffiths (Baruch College, City University of New York), Old New Media: The Time Warp Caseof Motion Pictures in Prison

2:40 Break

3:00 Special Session: Sallis Benney TheatreDigital Technologies and New Media circa 1900Panel Chair: Frank Gray (University of Brighton)Panelists: Richard Crangle (Lucerna database), Bryony Dixon (BFI), Luke McKernan (The Bioscope), Ned

Thanhouser (Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.)

4:20 Break

4:30 Panel 12: Sallis Benney TheatreMagic Lantern

Panel Chair: Martin Loiperdinger (University of Trier)Valentine Robert (Universit de Lausanne/Universit de Montral), De la page la performance, de la

toile lcran !ou comment la nouvelle culture des mdias sapproprie et transforme le tableauvivant

M. Magdalena Brotons Cap (Universitat de les illes Balears, Espaa), Les plaques de lanterne magique lorigine de limage cinmatographique

Sarah Dellmann (Utrecht University), Getting to Know the Dutch: Magic Lantern Series on the

Netherlands Considered as Screen PracticeLudwig Vogl-Bienek (University of Trier), Screening Sensations and Live Performance


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6:00 Break

8:15 Evening Event: Dickensian Light and Magic: Dickens, the Magic Lantern, andthe History of Entertainment with Joss Marsh (writer/performer), Stephen Horne (piano) andDavid Francis (lanternist)

WEDNESDAY 20th June 2012


9:00 Panel 13: Sallis Benney TheatreNarrators

Panel Chair: Ludwig Vogl-Bienek (University of Trier)Alain Boillat (Universit de Lausanne), Projections fixes / animes : approche historiographique et

thorique de la confrence

Judith Buchanan (University of York), Guttersnipe Dialects and locution soigne: The RangingCultural Performance Registers of Early Cinema Lecturers

May Adadol Ingawanij (University of Westminster), A Late Early Cinema: Orality and Siams 16mm EraMartin Loiperdinger (University of Trier), Missing Believed Lost: The Film Narrator, Then and Now

Panel 14: Room G4Parallel Exhibition Histories, 1860-1914

Panel Chair: Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London)John Plunkett (University of Exeter), Variety, Visuality and Town-Hall Venues: The Show-Business

Legacy of Touring Panoramas and DioramasJoe Kember (University of Exeter), The Home of Animated Photography: The Long Institutional

History of British Town Hall Picture Shows

Rosalind Leveridge (University of Exeter), A Complete Entertainment from the Moment They Enter:Cinema and Community in the Coastal Resorts of the South West, 1909-1914

10:15 Break

10:40 Panel 15: Sallis Benney TheatreShadows and Circuses

Panel Chair: Kaveh Askari (University of Western Washington)Thierry Lecointe (chercheur indpendant), Entre nouveaut et continuit : Le spectacle

cinmatographique, une remanence du thtre dombres franais?Marco Bellano (Universit degli Studi di Padova), The Sound of the Shadows: The Aesthetics of Music

for Shadow Plays in Late-Nineteenth-Century FranceCanan Balan (Istanbul Sehir University), Early Multimedia Performances in Istanbul at the Turn of the

CenturyAnnie Fee (University of Washington), Circus and Cinema: A Fairground Audience at the Gaumont-

Palace

12:00 Lunch

1:20 Panel 16: Sallis Benney TheatreLiterature, Visuality, and Early Film

Panel Chair: David Williams (independent scholar)Laura Marcus (Oxford University), Conrads Figurative Understandings of the Cinema

Jonathan Freedman (University of Michigan), G. A. Smith and Henry James: Visuality and Fiction-Making circa 1900

2:20 Break


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2:30 Special Session:Sallis Benney TheatreBrighton 1978/2012SessionChair: Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London)Panelists: Philippe Gauthier (Universit de Montral/Universit de Lausanne) and Brian Real (University of

Maryland), David Francis (Indiana University), Andr Gaudreault (Universit de Montral), PaulSpehr (independent scholar)

4:00 Sessions end

6:00 Evening Event: The Brighton School RevisitedNew approaches and insights on the work on G. A. Smith and James Williamson with Frank Gray(lecturer) and Stephen Horne (piano); presented at the Duke of Yorks Picturehouse, the UKs oldestfunctioning cinema

THURSDAY 21st June 2012


9:00 Panel 17: Sallis Benney TheatreTechnology IPanel Chair: Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar)Benot Turquety (Universit de Lausanne), Lhistoire des techniques comme source pour lhistoire des

pratiques performativesKatharina Loew (University of Oregon), Specters of the Theater: 3-D Cinema in the 1910sDoron Galili (Oberlin College), The Invention that Will Out-Edison Edison: Early Cinema and Moving

Image TransmissionTed Hovet (Western Kentucky University), From Circle to Oblong: Standardizing the Borders of the

Projected Image in the 1890sWilliam Boddy (Baruch College, City University of New York), The Spectacle of Technology: Cinemaand Outdoor Advertising in Early-Twentieth-Century Visual Culture

Panel 18: Room G4Performance Beyond the Silent Screen: Comedy, Criminality and the Fashioning of a

Multimodal CinemaPanel Chair: Tami Williams (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)April Miller (University of Northern Colorado), Vamp until Ready: Parlor Songs, Pseudoscience, and the

Ephemeral Performance of the Silent Screen VampireVicki Callahan (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Simulation Platforms for Writing Film History: A Scalar

Presentation on Mabel Normand and Cinematic PerformanceMichele Torre (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Transforming Comedic Performance for the New

Media: Lina Bauer Does Film Comedy

10:30 Break

10:40 Panel 19: Sallis Benney TheatrePerforming Femininity

Panel Chair: Gregory A. Waller (Indiana University)Shelley Stamp (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lois Weber at Rex: Performing Femininity across

MediaLiz Clarke (Wilfrid Laurier University), Old Wars and New Women: Performing Active FemininityDiana Anselmo-Sequeira (University of California, Irvine), Neither Here, Nor There, But Everywhere:

How Early American Film Disembodied Adolescent Girlhood

Leslie Midkiff DeBauche (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), When the Law Is the Audience:Codifying Performance in a New Medium


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Panel 20: Room G4Technology II

Panel Chair: Sabine Lenk (Utrecht University)Richard Brown (independent scholar), A New Look at Old HistoryPaul Spehr (independent scholar), Scopes, Phones, Graphs and Grams: Movies and Phonographs at the

Introduction of Cinema

Frank M. Scheide (University of Arkansas), Freeman Owens: Early Arkansas Home Movie Exhibitor,Cinematographer, and Inventor of Motion Picture Technology from 1908-1972

Stephen Herbert (Kingston University, London), Recreating the First Cameras: A Twelve-Year Project

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Panel 21: Sallis Benney TheatrePlace and ExhibitionPanel Chair: Peter Walsh (University of Sheffield)Marta Braun (Ryerson University) and Charlie Keil (University of Toronto), Architecture and

Performance: Torontos Screen Media Landscape at the Turn of the CenturyPaul S. Moore (Ryerson University), Moving Picture Postcards: Local Views in North American Picture

Shows before the NickelodeonLeigh Mercer (University of Washington), Barcelona on the Move: The Metropolitan Cinemaway at theIntersection of Tourism, Entertainment, and Urbanism

Begoa Soto Vzquez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid), Cinema as Extension of the Train and theJournal: Considering a New Audience for the Cinematograph, Madrid 1900-1912

2:20 Break

2:40 Special Session: Sallis Benney TheatreDomitor General Assembly

4:00 Break

4:20 Panel 22: Sallis Benney TheatreProgramming and Performance

Panel Chair: Diana Anselmo-Sequeira (University of California, Irvine)Laurent Guido (Universit de Lausanne) and Laurent Le Forestier (Universit de Rennes), Performance

et projections filmiques : le cinma des premiers temps comme programmation du spectacle vivantAnsje van Beusekom (Utrecht University), Performing Films in Winter 1904, 1905, and 1906: Albert

Frres and Their Exhibition Skills in Multipurpose Buildings in Dutch Cities

6:00 Evening Event: Reception at the Royal Pavilion (details to be announced)Domitor is invited to the Pavilion as the guests of the Mayor of Brighton & Hove (Councillor Bill Randall)and the City of Brighton & Hove

FRIDAY 22ndJune 2012


9:00 Panel 23: Sallis Benney TheatreFregoli, Reynaud, and Lightning Sketches

Panel Chair: Donald Crafton (University of Notre Dame)Frdric Tabet (Universit Paris-Est), La transparence du FregoligraphChristelle Odoux (chercheuse indpendante), Lapplication par mile Reynaud de la photographie son

Thtre optique : lesPhoto-peintures animes(1896)Jean-Baptiste Massuet (Universit Rennes 2), Lappropriation des Lightning Sketches par le

Cinmatographe, de la performance scnique au dessin animMalcolm Cook (Birkbeck College, University of London), Performance Times: The Lightning Cartoon

and the Emergence of Animation


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Panel 24: Room G4Early Cinema (A)live! Sound, Body Performances, and Media Constructions of

PresencePanel Chair: Frank Kessler (Utrecht University)Wolfgang Fuhrmann (University of Zrich), Listening to the Image: Ethnographic Films Long Beginning

Kristina Khler (University of Zrich), Tango Mad and Affected by Cinematographitis: The 1910s DanceCrazes, Early Cinema, and Rhythmic Contagions between Screens and Audiences

Daniel Wiegand (University of Zrich), Performed Live and Talking. No Kinematograph: AmateurPerformances of Tableaux Vivants and Local Film Exhibition in Germany around 1900

Franziska Heller (University of Zrich), Lumire Re-Mastered? Early Cinema Today and Its DigitalPerformance

10:20 Break

10:45 Panel 25: Sallis Benney TheatreReconsidering Early Japanese Film: Sounds, Stories, and Performances

Panel Chair: Hiroshi Komatsu (Waseda University)

Ryo Okubo (University of Tokyo), Teachers, Benshi, and Itinerant Entertainers: Magic LanternPerformances in Japan at the End of the Nineteenth CenturySawako Ogawa (University of Tokyo), From Kodan to Kyugeki: How the Japanese Storytelling Tradition

of Kodan Was Assimilated into Early Japanese CinemaManabu Ueda (Ritsumeikan University), The Development of Regional Characteristics during the

Emergence of Moving Picture Theaters: A Comparison between Tokyo and KyotoMasaki Daibo (Waseda University), Reception of Film dArt and Its Impact on Japanese Sound Culture

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Panel 26: Sallis Benney TheatreShowmen

Panel Chair: Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)Caitlin McGrath (independent scholar), The Eye Is a Great Educator: J. K. Dixon at KodakPeter Walsh (University of Sheffield), Standards of Practice in Transition: The Showmanship of Jasper

Redfern as It EmergedMaria A. Velez-Serna (University of Glasgow), Mapping Showmanship Skills and Practices in ScotlandArtemis Willis (University of Chicago), Marvelous and Fascinating: L. Frank Baums Fairylogue and Radio

Plays

Panel 27: Room G4Stage and Screen

Panel Chair: Gwendolyn Waltz (independent scholar)Ivo Blom (VU University of Amsterdam), The Cross-Medial Case of Lyda BorelliNic Leonhardt (LMU Munich), Pictorial Dramaturgy in Theatre and New Media, 1890-1915

Stephen Bottomore (independent scholar), The Lady of Ostend(1897): The First Stage Play aboutCinema

2:20 Break

2:40 Special Session:Sallis Benney TheatreClosing Roundtable: The Future of Early Cinema Studies

Panelists: Frank Gray (University of Brighton) and Scott Curtis (Northwestern University)

3:40 End of conference

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