As part of MCW’s ongoing What’s Cooking?! research platform, the MIRACLE group (our research centre for film and moving-image media) is hosting a session on digital preservation with Sabine Lenk as our guest speaker next Friday, April 23rd.

Location  Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, 1.06 (Stijlkamer van Ravenstyn)
Time: 15.00-17.00

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIGITIZE?

The Dutch Institute for Sound and Image (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) is busy digitizing about 17.500 hours of film material over a period of seven years as part of the Beelden voor de toekomst-project. A crucial question for users of such archival material then is: What exactly happens on a technical level when an analogue image “becomes digitized”? How does this affect the image? This presentation will look at current practices and in particular at the way in which film archives cooperate with labs and post-production companies.

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The Iconology Research Group – an initiative of the Universities of Leuven and Utrecht – advances iconology as a field and method within the context of visual studies and image sciences (Bildwissenschaften). The IRG reviews and rethinks original methodologies in the light of new approaches, asks how other disciplines have profited from iconology and how they in turn inspire and/or reinvent iconology. Beyond methodological reflection, the IRG singles out three central research themes: the production and technologies of pictures, the significance and agency of images, and the transfer and migration of motifs. The IRG is a platform for discussion, research, and collaboration in Belgium and the Netherlands and opens up ongoing projects to international developments and perspectives. For more information see: iconologyresearchgroup.org

Annually, the IRG organizes an “Iconology meets…”‐symposium that focusses on the relation between iconology and other relevant fields, featuring a methodological discourse, historical research into the interdisciplinary roots of iconology, as well as specific case studies. The first two editions, Iconology meets Anthropology and Iconology meets Visual Studies were held in Leuven and Louvain‐la‐Neuve. The third edition, Iconology meets Film Studies, takes place on March 5, 2010 from 9:30 to 18:00 (U Theatre Studio-T Kromme Nieuwegracht 20).

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