(fading) "The ----------------- memory of film" (future)

David N. Rodowick (Harvard University)

This is part of a larger project I am starting on the place of the moving image

in contemporary art in terms of how it presents a naming crisis: around

questions of movement, image, time, and history. This naming crisis is

generated out of an undecidability concerning the placement of such

artworks within a past genealogy of moving images (hence nostalgic

element) and the difficulty of grasping their anticipatory force as the

harbinger of future relationships to the image. I will certainly want to talk

about a recent Ken Jacobs work, “Capitialism: Child Labor” and perhaps a

recent installation by Victor Burgin, “Hôtel Berlin.