Fellow AoIRers, I'd like to invite you to the final conference of the "Digital Formalism" project our dept. is co-hosting in January in Vienna, Austria - no conference fees apply. Would be a pleasure to meet some of you here:) Best wishes Jana Herwig (PhD Candidate, Dept. of Theater, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna) - SAVE THE DATE - DIGITAL FORMALISM / DZIGA VERTOV. "Method Has Left Home." Conference and Filmscreenings Jan 14 - 16, 2010, Vienna at Austrian Filmmuseum (Thursday) and Vienna University (Friday and Saturday, Aula, Campus AAKH) Speakers: John MacKay (Yale University), Annette Michelson (New York University), Alexander Deriabin (Moscow), Barbara Wurm (Basel/Berlin/Vienna), Julia Kursell (Berlin), Vera Kropf (Vienna University), Michael Loebenstein (Vienna), Adelheid Heftberger (Vienna), Georg Wasner (Vienna), Stavros Alifragkis (Cambridge University), Ute Holl (University of Basel), Matthias Zeppelzauer (TU Vienna), Dalibor Mitrovic (TU Vienna), Maia Zaharieva (TU Vienna), Wolfgang Beilenhoff (Weimar/Bochum), Thomas Tode (Hamburg) Film screenings: A Sixth Part of the World (Dziga Vertov, 1926), Mirror Films. Reflections on Vertov (a programme of films and digital works by Manuel Knapp, Peter Kubelka, Almut Rink and others) Opening of conference: Jan 14, 2010, 3 pm End of conference: Jan 16, 2010, 2 pm Conference language: English No admission fee! A detailed programme will be available at the website http://digitalformalism.org from Dec 10th 2009. Details of the conference's concept are available here: https://typo3.univie.ac.at/uploads/tx_cal/media/DigitalFormalismSaveDate.pdf Conference organisation board: Andrea B. Braidt, Klemens Gruber, Vera Kropf, Barbara Wurm Project partners: TFM Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies (Vienna University); Austrian Film Museum; Institute of Software Engineering and Interactive Systems (Vienna University of Technology) The conference and project are funded by WWTF Vienna Science and Technology Fund. If you have any questions, please send an email to andrea.braidt@univie.ac.at.