Seminar Oskar Fischinger; See The Sound, Hear The Image

Seminar to accompany the exhibition ‘Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction’

8 Feb 2013

An international gathering of renowned speakers, including curator Jean-Michel Bouhours and color expert Anne van der Zwaag, will examine the phenomenon of Fischinger in the presence of students and professionals in the fields of film and visual art. The work of this avant-garde filmmaker and artist will be discussed, celebrated and (re) viewed.

Enlarge

Oskar Fischinger -

Date: Friday February 8th
Open: 12.30 – 17.15 hrs
Location: EYE, IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam
Prices: € 30 (students € 25, click on the link for this after ‘Regular € 30’, via the buy tickets button on the site)

Program
12.30 hrs: Doors open

12.45 hrs: Welcome word by Jaap Guldemond, Director of Exhibitions EYE; followed directly by an introduction by moderator Mieke Bernink, lector film and program director Master’s Degree at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy.

13.00 hrs: Screening Study nr. 5 (Oskar Fischinger)

13.05 hrs: ‘Oskar Fischinger and the International Avant-Garde’: Jean-Michel Bouhours (curator at Centre Pompidou) on absolute film, predecessors and contemporaries and the ‘origins of visual music’

13.50 hrs: Presentation of the catalogue

14.00 hrs: Screening Kreise (Oskar Fischinger)

14.05 hrs: ‘Kleur in beeld’ (Color in focus): Mieke Bernink conducts a double interview with color expert Anne van der Zwaag and Mark Paul Meyer, senior conservator EYE. How does color affect us, how did color affect Fischinger?

15.00 hrs: Intermission

15.30 hrs: Motion in painting - motion in music. Musicologist Jörg Jewanski on color, light and music

16.15 hrs: Influence & inspiration: filmmakers that were influenced by Fischinger, film program with introduction by curator, filmmaker, light artist and Head of Combined Faculty of ArtScience, Joost Rekveld

17.15 hrs : Conclusion by Mieke Bernink

Speakers

Curator Jean-Michel Bouhours speaks about avant-garde and absolute film. Bouhours is currently working on a major Salvador Dali exhibition for Centre Pompidou and the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid.
In this seminar, professor of musicology Jörg Jewanski (University Münster, Germany) talks about color, light, music and sound in Fischinger’s work. Jewanski is specialized in the relationship between music and visual arts.
Color expert Anne van der Zwaag, together with Mark Paul Meyer, senior conservator EYE and Fischinger expert, are interviewed about color and how it affects us, the audience and Fischinger’s work. As guest curator at the Fotomuseum in Rotterdam, since 2011 Van der Zwaag has set up the Black & White program on design, visual art and film. She also organized a symposium on color at the Tropenmuseum.
Joost Rekveld, Fischinger expert, filmmaker, light artist and teacher (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) is curator of the film program at this seminar, which shows the work of filmmakers inspired by Fischinger.
Mieke Bernink (moderator) is lector of the Master’s Degree Course at the NFTA, Amsterdam.

The seminar is in English.

voor meer informatie zie website EYE

By: EYE

All rights reserved