Exhibit A: AHCCA Postgraduate Association Conference

The AHCCA Postgraduate Association Conference 2004 was held on Thursday 4th November 2004.The conference had the themes of display, spectacle and spectatorship.

Keynote Speaker

Professor Jim Collins is Associate Professor, Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Film, Television and Theater at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

His visit was jointly supported by the Visual Culture Department, Monash University.

"We're All Curators Now"

How can an interdisciplinary department envision some kind of commonality of purpose, or at least identify paradigms that will be especially productive in terms of providing the basis for a shared conversation? "Cultural studies" as it has been practiced, is not the answer because it has reinforced traditional distinctions between high art and popular culture by focusing only almost exclusively on the latter. Yet cultural studies should have something to say about Culture when it becomes popular entertainment in the form of blockbuster museum shows, good design make-over television programs, opera singers as pop stars, etc. When any elite taste can be turned into popular culture, given the changes that have occurred within the past decade in information technologies and the targeting of quality audiences, we clearly need to pose some new questions about how culture is accessed and evaluated in the twenty-first century. Who gets to be a curator? What is an archive? And who functions as an authority when connoisseurship (or how to get it) has become a thriving form of popular culture?

Program

Prince Philip
Theatre (GF)

Sisalkraft Theatre (GF)

South Theatre (1st Floor)

Session 1:
The Spectacular Moment
Chair: Kate McNeil

Session 2: Travelling Light: Space & Beyond Chair: tbc

Session 3: Staging Spectacle
Chair: Dr. Christopher Marshall

1.
9.00
–
9.25

Eszter Szabo Curatorship University of Melbourne
The House of Terror in Budapest

Djoymi Baker, Cinema University of Melbourne Welcome Home: Star Trek Enterprise, Theme Songs and TV Titles

Miriam Riverlea, Classics University of Melbourne Let the Games Begin: critiquing kitsch at the Athens 2004 Opening Ceremony

2.
9.25
-
9.50

Christian McCrea, Cinema University of Melbourne
The Death of Games

Estelle Strazdins Classics University of Melbourne Knowledge, Perception, Inertia: keinos/ekeinos in the Telemakheia

Peter Allan Fashion RMIT The Fabricated Man

3.
9.50
-
10.15

Edwina Bartlem Cinema University of Melbourne Immersed in Artificial Life (A-Life)

Kyle Weise Cinema University of Melbourne Spaces of Surveillance: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Hollywood Spy Films

Dimitris Vardoulakis Comp. Lit. and Cultural Studies Monash University
The Spectacle of the Sublime

4.
10.15
-
10.40

Patrick Porter Cinema University of Melbourne
Buffy vs. Dracula: Genre, Intertextuality and Carnival

Ruth Brimacombe Art History University of Melbourne Art and the Prince of Wales's Royal Progress to India

Stuart Grant Performance Studies University of Sydney Gathering to Witness

5.
10.40
-
11.05

Luke Stickels Cinema University of Melbourne Turning down the volume: questions of cinematic minimalism, relativity and spectacle

Aleks Michalewicz Classics University of Melbourne GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER?: Eating Ritual and Transgression in Homer's Odyssey

Alexandra Ellem Conservation University of Melbourne
When A Spectator Makes A Spectacle: The NGV's First Cleaning Controversy, 1899

6.
11.05
-
11.30

Helen Webberley Art History University of Melbourne
The Tower of David Days

Lucy Wright Creative Arts University of Melbourne Sci-Fi Spiritualism and the Transcendent Cinematic Experience

Fincina Hopgood Cinema University of Melbourne Melodramas of Affliction: the spectacle of madness on screen

7.
11.30
-
11.55

Diana Sandars Cinema University of Melbourne
The Queer Australian Musical: Queering the Australian Frontier

David Collard Archaeology University of Melbourne Throwing out the ‘Sea Peoples' with the Bathwater – Bathtubs in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

James Garrett Comp. Lit. and Cultural Studies Monash University Statecraft and the Spectacle in Sophocles

Lunch ::12:00 – 12.40

Session 4:
Space, Place and Memory
Chair: Dr. Kim On Chong Gossard

Session 5: Bodies on Display
Chair: Ass. Prof. Angela Ndalianis

Session 6: Looking Back on Now
Chair: Dr. Anthony White

1.
12.45
–
1.10

Erica Bexley Classics University of Melbourne
Urbs Sacra

Anika Ervin-Ward Cinema University of Melbourne Tim's Tales of Outsiderhood: Batman, Stainboy and the Man who had Scissors for Hands

Ryan Johnston Art History University of Melbourne Bunk!: Eduardo Paolozzi and the emergence of Pop art in Britain

2.
1.10
–
1.35

Kheng Kin Yap Visual Arts University of Sydney
Habits of Space

Tracey Clement Visual Arts Sydney College of the Arts Border Zones

Humphrey Clegg Cinema University of Melbourne Video Games as Pop Culture, New Media and beyond

3.
1.35
-
2.00

Bryony Wakefield Art History ANU Terra Spiritus

Lisa Mansfield Art History University of Melbourne 'Bling, Bling' and the other crown jewels: Renaissance Kingship as Physical Spectacle

Eu Jin Chua Cinema University of Auckland
The Marvel of the Modern World: On Cinematic Wonder

4.
2
-
2.25

Maria Buchner Visual Arts Sydney College of the Arts
The Desert. Image and Reality

Margaret Mayhew Art History & Theory University of Sydney Embodied Spectatorship: Ambiguity, Performativity and the Life Studio

Alison Holland Art History University of Melbourne Moga to Po-moga: Modern and Post-modern woman

5.
2.25
-
2.45

Henry Skerritt Art History University of Melbourne Returning to Forgotten Fields: Landscape Art After The Field exhibition (National Gallery of Victoria, 1968).

Sharon Peoples Art History ANU Extreme hair: the politics of hair in the mid to late eighteenth century

Amelia Douglas Art History University of Melbourne
In the Belly of Anarchitect - The Raw and the Cooked

Afternoon tea 2.45- 3:10

Session 7:
Word and Image
Chair: Pat Bieszk

Session 8: Picture This: Frozen Moments Chair: Diana Sandars

Session 9: Structure and Narrative
Chair: Clare O'Donoghue

1.
3.15
–
3.40

Kate McNeil Art History University of Melbourne Spectacle, semantic slippage or a productive site of subversion - the concept of hybridity in Australian art writing.

Jolanta Nowak Art History & Philosophy University of Melbourne Evanescent Images: Looking at Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977

D. Bruno Starrs Creative Arts University of Melbourne Babbling Gods; Multi-voice-over Narration in the Movies

2.
3.40
–
4.05

Allan Cameron Cinema University of Melbourne Contingency, Order and the Modular Narrative: 21 Grams and Irreversible

John McGowan-Hartmann Cinema University of Melbourne Animation in Depth: Building a Cinematic Entity

Vincent Alessi Art History LaTrobe University
The emergence of the series in the art of Van Gogh

3.
4.05
–
4.30

Dave Ciccoricco English University of Canterbury, New Zealand Digital Literacy and the Processual Page

Cherie Prosser Art History Going for Baroque: The use of Neo-baroque Aesthetics in Contemporary Photomedia

Leo Couacaud Anthropology University of Melbourne Towards a theory of coolness

4.
4.30
-
4.55

Nicholas Selenitsch Conservation University of Melbourne
The Conservation of Ideas

Peter Milne Visual Arts Griffith University
Wild Erratic Fancy

Reshmi Roy Cinema University of Canterbury, New Zealand Perspectives on New Indian Cinema: Gender, Class and Power in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding and Revathy's Mitr, My Friend

Keynote Address 5:15-6:15
Assoc Prof Jim Collins University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Reception 6:15-7:15 Elizabeth Murdoch Courtyard

Conference Dinner 7:30 - late Il Cantuccio 209 Lygon St. Carlton

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