Thought on Film XXII

A monthly reading + discussion group, Thought on Film aims to promote critical thought around film product and practice through community-based discussion. Open to the public, Thought on Film fosters the close reading of texts confronting issues in contemporary, cutting-edge cinematic practice and philosophy.

Provoked by the presentation of Willy Le Maitre’s Eida at VIVO Media Arts as part of Interactive Futures 09, November’s meeting will feature an excerpt from Gilles Deleuze’s The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque.

Edia is a real-time narrated media presentation by Le Maitre displayed in stereographic format. Edia explores the topologies of information space. While an individual is situated in a body, its counterpart, the dividual, is situated in its body’s relations, communication, emotings. Eida details the notion of a distributed self and its relative psychogeography, encompassing the non-Euclidean space of networked culture in general. Edia is an entity that distributes the self in a constellation of points around the globe. The points are personified by 'friends' in dialouge. The entity's interconnected points can fluidly scale to encompass vast dimensions in time and space. In The Fold, Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science.

Experimenting with the form of reading groups and their discussions, this month’s selection will be read out loud by participants. No pre-reading required!

If you have any questions about Thought on Film, please do not hesitate to contact Programs Manager + Curator cheyanne turions at [email protected].

THOUGHT ON FILM XXII
reading an excerpt from Gilles Deleuze's The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 6pm
Free