WRITINGS AND TALKS

 

WRITINGS

2013

"Foresight, Hindsight and State Secrecy in the American West: The Geopolitical Aesthetics of Trevor Paglen," Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 12(1) (2013): 148-164.

2012

Ethics and Images of Pain, with Asbjørn Grønstad (New York: Routledge, 2012)

"Introduction." In Ethics and Images of Pain, with Asbjørn Grønstad (New York: Routledge, 2012)

2011

(In)site Sagalassos: From Where We Stand. Text for portfolio with photographs by Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys (Brussels: Sint-Lukas Books, 2011).

"Beyond Location: Vertigo and the Capacity for Wonder" in The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage, and Commemoration, ed. Douglas A. Cunningham (Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth: The Scarecrow Press, 2011).

"War Stories, Crime Stories and Ghost Stories" in Imaging History: Photography after the fact, eds. Bruno Vandermeulen and Danny Veys (Brussel: ASA Publishers, 2011).

"The Country, the City, and the Scene of the Crime: On Claude Lanzmann" in Urban Images: Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture, eds. Synne Bull and Marit Paasche (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011).

2010

Review of Tomo Savic-Gecan, UNTITLED, 2010, Bergen Kunsthall and Jeu de Paume, October 8 - December 22, 2010, http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/mellan-rummen/

"Jakob Jakobsen: Billed Politikk: Brudstykker af samtidshistorien betragtet som tragedie / Mikkel Bolt, Jakob Jakobsen & Morten Visby: Billed Politikk: At se er at draebe." Review in Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur, 1.2 (2010), 154-156.

"Direkte og stumt - kravløst og krevende", Review of Christopher Williams, For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10), Bergen Kunsthall, January 15 - February 21, 2010, http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/direkte-og-stumt-kravlost-og-krevende/

2009

”Meningsfulla mellanrum.” In Edda: Nordisk Tidsskrift Litteraturforskning, 4/09. (Review of Interaktioner. Om Kunstarternes Produktive Mellemværender, eds. Peter Stein Larsen, Peder Kaj Pedersen, Ernst-Ullrich Pinkert and Bent Sørensen).

”Sequential Space.” In Cinema and Comics: Affinities, Differences and New Forms of Interference (Udine: Forum).

2008

”Att uppfinna och uppäcka den Amerikanska filmen”, In Replikk, no. 26 autumn. 

Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974 (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller).

2007

Out of Site: Landscape and Cultural Reflexivity in New Hollywood Cinema 1969-1974 (Doctoral Dissertation. Stockholm: Stockholm Cinema Studies).

2006

”Getting Back into Place (Going into Orbit): Realismus, Narration und Landschaft im Kino des New Hollywood”, Moving Landscapes: Landschaft und Film, eds. Barbara Pichler and Andrea Pollach (Wien: Synema).

 

TALKS

2013

"Van Gogh's Suicide Note and the Remnants of Auschwitz," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 6-10, 2013. 

2012

"Foresight, Hindsight, and Blind Spots: Mapping State Secrecy in the American West." The 6th Nomadikon Meeting: Ecologies of Seeing or Seeing Whole: Images and Space, Images within Images. The Collage of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, September 27-29, 2012.

2011

"Splitting Sightlines: Immersion and Withdrawal in the Films of Claire Denis." Image=Gesture: The 5th Nomadikon Meeting. Bergen, November 9-12, 2011.

"From Scopic Regimes to Scotopic Vision: Mapping Dark Geography." Media Acts, Trondheim, October, 26-28.

"Site, Speech and Silence." Hollow Land: Landscape, Memory, Politics. Bergen, September 20, 2011.

"Territories of Never-Ending War: Trevor Paglen and the Agency of Dark Geographies." Visible Evidence 18, New York City, August 11-14, 2011.

"‘Uncanny Landscape': On Claire Denis." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference Media Citizenship. New Orleans, March 10-13.

2010

"The Country, the City, & the Scene of the Crime: On Claude Lanzmann." Urban Images: Re-imagining the City through Moving Images, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, September 9-10.

"Screen, Site and Scenery." The Third Nomadikon Meeting: New Screen Ecologies. Bergen, April 12.

"New Topographies in Late 20th-Century Nonfiction Film." Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past. Los Angeles, March 17-21.

"Confronting Absence: Imagination and Excavation", Imaging History - Photography after the Fact, Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels, February 18.

2009

 “Terrestrial Cinema and non-anthropomorphic imagination”, Appreciating the views: How we’re looking at the social and visual landscape, IVSA Conference. Cumbria, July 22-24.

“Past tense/present place”, Locating Media: Paradoxes of place in contemporary cinema, NECS Conference. Lund, June 25-28.

“Where does it hurt? Revisiting crime scenes in non-fiction film”, The Second Nomadikon Meeting: Images of Pain/Painful Images. Bergen, June 19-21.

“Hollywood och film noir” Guest Lecture, Perspektiv på film, senioruniversitetet. Stockholm, February 25. 

”Ruins in reverse: the image & the surface of the earth”, The First Nomadikon Meeting: Pluralizing Visual Culture. Bergen, February 21.

2008

”Sequential Space”, Cinema and Comics: Affinities, Differences and New Forms of Interference. XV International Film Studies Conference, Udine, March 3-6.

“Klassicism och modernism i det ‘nya’ Hollywood.” Guest Lecture, Perspektiv på film, senioruniversitetet. Stockholm, January 30.

2003 

“On A Clear Day You Can See Forever: The American Artist and the Light of the Land in The Shining.” NorFa course: Text/context in Aesthetic Analysis of Media, August 18– 22.

 
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