CONFERENCES

Megapixel 10th & 11th October 2007

Anglia Ruskin University in association with Film Media and Digital Exchange at The Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge.

Venue: The Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge, UK

A two-day conference with screenings to discuss notions of “High Definition” and the repercussions this will have on TV, Film, Photography, Art and wider culture. We wish to embrace all areas of academic, practitioner and industry research in regard to this burgeoning technology, its usage, and the issues and challenges it engenders. We hope to encourage discussion which demystifies and illuminates the potential of greater bandwidth, and the craving for the real in an increasingly visual society. We will be mixing responses from academic theorists, technologists, media practitioners and cultural commentators.
In Film and TV the move towards HD is a big challenge to practitioners and educators. What will we do with all those pixels? But the issues reach far wider than Film and TV technologies. Photography, Games and Education are being transformed by the same forces. But who is shaping this agenda and why? Why this obsession with the ‘real’? Who are the Movers and Shakers? Is UK PLC prepared? We hope this conference will answer some of these questions, and frame new ones. As part of the conference we’ll also be screening High Definition Films at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse.

MEGAPIXEL EXCLUSIVE:
A UK first! An exclusive Showing of BBC's EARTH

Not in cinemas until November 16th!

Thanks to distributors Lionsgate, we have a unique showing of the BBC's
greatest nature/wildlife film ever, Earth at the Megapixel Conference, FREE
to Delegates, on October 10th.
This is a newly mastered cinematic version of the award-winning BBC
television series Planet Earth, originally shot in HD, and has never been
seen cinematically until now! At MEGAPIXEL you'll be able to see the full 90
minutes in HD, for free!
This remarkable breath-taking story is narrated by Patrick Stewart and
filmed with high definition cameras to create an unforgettable journey
through the changing seasons and daily struggle for life across our planet,
from rarely seen stunning landscapes to the smallest details in the lives of
our planet's wildest and most elusive creatures.
With an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, Five years in
production, over 2,000 days in the field, and using 40 cameramen filming
across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition, this is the ultimate
portrait of our planet capturing rare action and impossible locations with
frequent use of super-slow-motion and amazing motion-controlled time-lapse
cinematography.
If you've seen the TV series, now see the HD film and be amazed.
For details and booking: www.megapixel.co.uk

Prague Quadrennial 14– 24 June 2007
PQSI Conference 2007 - 20 to 21 June 2007

Venue: DAMU space and in the PQ Public Lecture Hall at the Industrial Palace, Prague

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 16 March 2007

The PQ/SI Conference is a collaboration between Scenography International (a peer reviewed academic journal) and The Prague Quadrennial. This collaboration came out of discussion with this year's General Commissioner Professor Arnold Aronson for a debate around international research in scenography for a variety of performance environments. The Conference looks at the developing nature of scenography and in particular Transliteracy and the different and developing skills used in the making and reading of images in entertainment environments.

Transliteracy - The History and Theory of Scenography – interdisciplinary making and reading of images in entertainment environments

Currently, the Prague Quadrennial is the only Exhibition of its kind and magnitude in the world, which exhibits contemporary stage designs and theatre architecture. "There is no other event like the Prague Quadrennial anywhere in the world. The PQ reminds us that theatre is — perhaps first and foremost — a visual and spatial event." - Professor Arnold Aronson, General Commissioner of PQ2007

Contact: Dr Christine White info@scenography-international.co.uk

Prague Quadrennial www.pq.cz

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