Informationen zur Aufzeichnung:
Aufnahme: ICI Berlin, 21.10.2024, 19:30
Anmerkungen:
Enthält: Introduction by Marietta Kesting (06:36); Talk by Bettina Malcomess (1:05:01); Discussion (31:57)
Vortrag. Deutschland. 2024
D 2024
In englischer Sprache
Beschreibung:
This lecture explores the operations of scale within cinematic and photographic mediations of the South African War (1899-1902), a peripheral colonial conflict between the British Empire and the Boer republics in South Africa. Examining actuality films from the war alongside officers' accounts, photographs, maps, and neglected archival collections, it proposes a way to think about scale within what Malcomess calls an emerging colonial order of information. The latter, she proposes, restructures the modern imaginary of space and time around the concept of the field, a schema with intentionally multiple inflections: a battlefield, a diagrammatic form, a field of attention, and a spatio-temporal field inscribed within diverse forms from cinematography to cartography, telegraphy, aerial photography, photogrammetry, and stereography.