Monday, June 7th, 2021
Live-Discussion: The Shared Heart Exhibition, with artists Bibo and Brian Keeley, streamed via the LLMVC YouTube channel. Online event, organised by Prof. Amy Bryzgel (with Dr Katya Krylova deputising as chair).
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
Research seminar: Laura Sullivan (PhD student in Film and Visual Culture, Aberdeen): ‘”Knock, knock!” How practice-based research mines the digital archive’, online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Katya Krylova.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
Public seminar: Dr Elena Pollacchi (senior lecturer in Chinese Studies and Culture at Gothenburg University) ‘Contemporary Chinese Cinema. Filmmakers Representing the Real against a Booming Industry’, online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Friday, March 19th, 2021
Talk by Dr Julie Rodgers (French Department at Maynooth University, Ireland): ‘”Mais qui va garder les enfants?” Postfeminist Retraditionalism in Sylvie Testud’s La vie d’une autre (2012)’, online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Áine Larkin. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, March 17th, 2021
Talk by Irish artist Will O’Kane: ‘Notes on Regional Painting’, about some works made within specific contexts in the mid-west and west of Ireland – a fitting event to mark St Patrick’s Day! Online event, with discussion chaired by Dr Áine Larkin. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Course seminar: ‘Alchemy Film and Arts: Moving Image Projects in Hawick with Rachael Disbury and Michael Pattison’, online event, with discussion chaired by Alan Macpherson. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Course seminar: Neil Hartman (Co-founder CineGlobe at CERN), “Science-themed Film Festivals”, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
Public Lecture: Marilène Oliver (University of Alberta), followed by Q&A with Dr Silvia Casini, “Making Art with Medical Data”, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
Public Lecture: Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck), “Loving the monster: David Lynch’s The Elephant Man as cultural history”, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Silvia Casini. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Course workshop: Sara Stroud (North East of Scotland College), organised by Dr Silvia Casini, “Making a Film Using your Mobile”, online event. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, October 7th, 2020
Online film screening, talk & discussion: “Painting Music” with Kate Steenhauer, Jack Caven and Dr Andrew Starkey, online event, discussion chaired by Dr Áine Larkin. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020
Public Lecture: Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck), “The Mystery of Robert Paul’s Aberdeen Film and Other Puzzles about Britain’s Neglected Pioneer”, Sir Duncan Rice Library.
Monday, February 10th, 2020
Film screening of A Moon for my Father, followed by Q&A masterclass with director Mania Akbari (in conversation with Dr Alejandra Rodríguez). Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Poetry Reading and Film Screening by Tom Pickard, Taylor Building.
Organised by the Sir Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History (University of Aberdeen), in association with the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Director’s Cut with Alan Warner on ‘The Art of Film Adaptation’, in conversation with Prof. Alan Marcus, Regent Lecture Theatre. Hosted by the VIEW programme of the GWW Centre, with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme and the University of Aberdeen’s Development Trust.
Monday, October 21st, 2019
Public lecture: Prof. David Scott (Trinity College Dublin), “Thirty-Six Ways of Looking at Marianne: A French National Icon as Illustrated in French Stamps”, Sir Duncan Rice Library. Chaired by Dr Áine Larkin and hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Monday, August 21st, 2019
Research seminar: Dr Agnese Sile (University of Edinburgh), “Photographic Representations of Illness Narratives”, Sir Duncan Rice Library. Hosted with the generous support of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding programme.
Saturday, May 25th, 2019 (UoA May Festival)
Director’s Cut with Ruth Beckermann, in conversation with Dr Katya Krylova, King’s College Conference Centre. Screening of The Waldheim Waltz (2018), followed by Q&A with the director. Hosted by the VIEW programme of the GWW Centre, with the generous support of the Austrian Cultural Forum London and the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, London.
Friday, May 24th, 2019 (UoA May Festival)
Exhibition Publication Launch and Round-Table Discussion, The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, to accompany the exhibitions Immobile Choreography by Beverley Hood and From Where Do We See? curated by Dr Silvia Casini. The launch event was led by Dr Silvia Casini, and included Dr Leeanne Bodkin, Dr Lionel Broche, Neil Curtis, and Beverley Hood.
Masterclass with Jon S. Baird at Belmont Filmhouse, facilitated by Professor Alan Marcus. The masterclass for Department of Film and Visual Culture students was held ahead of the evening Director’s Cut with Jon Baird at the May Festival.
Short Film Exhibition by Local Teenage Filmmakers, May Tent, King’s Lawn (May 24-26, 2019). Screening of films, resulting from the two-day Filmmaking Workshop for School Pupils (March 2019), organised by Dr Áine Larkin.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Research seminar: Dr Patrick Ellis (Georgia Institute of Technology), “Vertigo Effects: Film, Flight, and Simulation Sickness,” Sir Duncan Rice Library. Organised and chaired by Dr Silvia Casini.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019
Postgraduate Research Seminar, Taylor C25, University of Aberdeen:
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- Ashleigh Black: ‘How Modernity is Defined in the Panoptic Moment in the Photographs of George Washington Wilson’
- Jack Williams: ‘Realism and Oneness: Theory and Practice in the British Documentary Movement’
- Laura Sullivan: ‘Visual Orientalism – by Practice – what’s George Washington Wilson got to do with it?’
Saturday, March 2nd and Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Two-day Filmmaking Workshop for School Pupils aged 16+ from Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire schools, University of Aberdeen Media Lab. Sponsored by Aberdeen City Council Creative Funding.
Saturday, November 10th, 2018
Out of this World, a project by Norma D. Hunter, with Mary Carol Sounness and Fiona Vadler, a talk by Terri Bell Halliwell, and a performance by Kate Clayton
32 St Andrew St, Aberdeen, 12-4PM
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
Official launch of VIEW: Visual Arts & Culture Programme, University of Aberdeen
Book launch: Professor Roger Taylor and Dr. Brian May, George Washington Wilson, Artist and Photographer, Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Aberdeen
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
Research seminar: Dr Nizan Shaked (California State University, Long Beach), “Conceptualism & the Political Referent in Art,” Sir Duncan Rice Library
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Research seminar: Oron Catts (Director of SymbioticA, The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia), “Living Biological Objects on the Pedestal,” Sir Duncan Rice Library. Organised and chaired by Dr Silvia Casini.
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
“The Town is Your Garden,” talk by Joss Allen from Deveron Projects
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
Research seminar, Dr Sarah Cook, Duncan of Jordanstone, “Media archaeology excavations – digging digital art,” Sir Duncan Rice Library. Organised and chaired by Dr Silvia Casini.
Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
Picturing Science reading group discusses Paul Klee’s “On Modern Art”. Organised by Dr Silvia Casini.
Sunday, May 28th, 2017
Director’s Cut: Mark Adams in conversation with Paul Flaig, King’s College Conference Centre, part of the University of Aberdeen May Festival
Thursday, May 25th, 2017
Book launch: Amy Bryzgel, Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960, Blackwell’s Aberdeen, part of the University of Aberdeen May Festival
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
Talk by John Perivolaris and Maggie O’Neill, “Aegean Walks along a Border of Water, Tears and Bronze (1922-2016), Sir Duncan Rice Library
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017
Picturing Science reading group, together with the GWW, discussion of Janet Vertesi, “Seeing like a Rover: Visualisation, embodiment, and interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission”. Organised by Dr Silvia Casini.
March 20th – April 23rd, 2017
Exhibition: Chris Heppell, “aberdeen,” Sir Duncan Rice Library
Thursday, March 23rd, 2017
Talk by Tim Boon, Head of Research & Public History, Science Museum Group London, Taylor Building, organised by Dr Silvia Casini, in collaboration with the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
Monday, March 20th, 2017
Screening: Beyond Horizons, and discussion with its directors and curator, MacRobert Building
Friday, March 17th, 2017
Screening and Q&A with multimedia artist Johannes Deutsch, organised by Dr Silvia Casini, within the context of the SGSAH funded event In and Out of Space
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
Research Seminar: Visiting PhD student Barbara Barreiro Leon, “Amnesiac Spaces and Ephemeral Aesthetics: Postmodern Cities,” Sir Duncan Rice Library
Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
Director’s Cut: Mark Cousins, organised by Paul Flaig, King’s College Conference Centre
February 22nd, 2017
Research Seminar: Visiting PhD student Liis Kibuspuu, “Trace History of a Performance,” Sir Duncan Rice Library
Monday, February 13, 2017
Director’s Cut with Bernard Rose and screening of Candyman at the Belmont
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Research Seminar: Dr. Tamar Tembeck, McGill University, ‘Between ornament, distraction and appeasement: (mis)conceptions about the role of art in hospitals’, Sir Duncan Rice Library
Saturday, November 12th, 2016
Shared Heart – a Conversation with Brian and Bibo Keeley, together with Heather May Morgan (HSRU), Silvia Casini, and Amy Bryzgel, King’s College Conference Centre (part of the Festival of Social Science)
November 9th, 2016
Jr. Director’s Cut: Special Screening of Print Your Guy (2015) and Q&A with director Alwin Leene and Alan Marcus, Regent Lecture Theatre
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
Launch of the VISION series of events with a screening of Stuart Armitt’s documentary film Lure of the Lost, followed by a discussion with the Director and Anthony Schrag, hosted by PhD student Alan MacPherson, in the Sir Duncan Rice Library Gallery (part of the Ice Cube series)
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016
A Conversation with Richard Demarco, in King’s College Conference Centre followed by a drinks reception and official opening of the exhibition in the MacRobert gallery at 7:30pm, organised by Amy Bryzgel. Part of the May Festival 2016 Fringe
April 27th – September 27th, 2016
Exhibition: “East European Performance Art in Scotland: The Legacy of Richard Demarco,” Curated by Amy Bryzgel and Mariya Lanko, University of Aberdeen MacRobert Building Gallery
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Seminar: Dr Ella Chmielewska (Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture), ‘Vectors of looking: reflections on the Luftwaffe’s aerial survey of Warsaw, 1944’. Organised and chaired by Dr Silvia Casini.
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Seminar: Reif Larsen (International Writer’s Resident, University of St. Andrews), ‘Faking It: Writing Fiction as Sleight of Hand, or, How to Find What You Don’t Know You’re Looking For’.
March 17th, 2016
Screening of Slovak film Rukojemník (Hostage), organised by PhD student Denisa Tomkova
Thursday, February 17th, 2016
Seminar: Paul Flaig (University of Aberdeen), ‘Yesterday’s Hadaly’.
Thursday, February 17th, 2016
Screening of the Czech/Slovak film “Identity Card” (Občanský Průkaz), organised by Film and Visual Culture PhD student, Denisa Tomkova
Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Lecture: Professor Adrian Forty (University College, London), ‘On Nations and Materials’.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016
Seminar: Chris Heppell (PhD candidate, University of Aberdeen), ‘Camera Lucida as dark ecology’.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
Screening of Alan Marcus, The Cemetery, 2010, followed by discussion. Regent Lecture Theatre, University of Aberdeen. Sponsored by UCU for Holocaust Memorial Day.
Thursday, December 10th, 2015
‘Sites and Sounds of the City’: Pete Stollery in conversation with Ed Welch about City of Ghosts, Gallery of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen.
Thursday, November 19th, 2015
Seminar: Elizabeth Ezra (University of Stirling), ‘The Cinema of Things: The Marx Brothers’ Inhuman Comedy’.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
Director’s Cut: Volker Gerling, King’s College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen.
Friday, October 30th – Saturday, October 31st, 2015
Conference: Performance Art East, North East, West, University of Aberdeen.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 to Sunday, February 21, 2016
Exhibition: City of Ghosts, Gallery of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
Director’s Cut, K.P. Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro, Elphinstone Hall, University of Aberdeen.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
Seminar: Alex Forbes, ‘Euro-Visions: Post-89 Cinema and the (In)visibility of the Migrant’, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen.
Friday, September 25th, 2015
Bubble Mob, Union Square Shopping Centre, Aberdeen (part of Exploration: European Researchers’ Night)
Thursday, September 24th, 2015
Screening of Alan Marcus, One Hot Day, Gallery of the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
Thursday, May 28th to Saturday, June 27th, 2015
Exhibition: Home Truths: Workers and Families on the Move in the Oil Community, Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen.
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
The Art of Performance, part of the May Festival, University of Aberdeen.
Friday, May 29th and Sunday, May 31st, 2015
Material City Reloaded: Sounds and Visions of the City, part of the May Festival, University of Aberdeen.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Tanja Ostojić in conversation with Amy Bryzgel, ‘Feminism, Markets, Migration in Performance Art’, part of Director’s Cut Series 8, University of Aberdeen.
Thursday, March 19th, 2015
Zoe Heron In conversation with Alan Marcus, ‘Science on Screen ‘, part of Director’s Cut Series 8, University of Aberdeen.
Monday, March 16th, 2015
Douglas Morrey (University of Warwick), ‘Urban space in the French New Wave and the cinéma du look’.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Amy Bryzgel (University of Aberdeen), ‘Eastern European Performance Art and the Northeast of Scotland: Pioneering Artists, Surprising Connections’.
Thursday, February 26th, 2015
Michael Cowen (University of St Andrews), “Animating Vision: Advertising In and Out of the Cinema”.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Silvia Casini (University of Aberdeen), “The Visual Culture of Brain Imaging: From the Scan-Portrait to Bio-art”.
Monday, February 16th, 2015
Christy Garland In conversation with Alan Marcus, “Observational Cinema and the Progressive Documentary”, part of Director’s Cut Series 8, University of Aberdeen.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
PechaKucha Night, Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Laurence Grove (University of Glasgow), “Searching For The World’s First Comic”.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
GWW Screenings, Belmont Cinema, 15:00, Belmont Street, Aberdeen
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Katherine Groo (University of Aberdeen), “Ethnocinematic Animals, Following Derrida”.
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
Andrea Noble (Durham University), “Tears in Mexico: Emotions and Motivations”.
Monday, October 27th, 2014
Sarah Senk (Hartford University), “The 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Era of Virtual Witness”.
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