Do new media cannibalise or destroy old media?

Has digital imaging replaced celluloid film - or finalised realised its potential?

Do we feel different watching and listening to digital reproduction from the analogue experience?

Is nostalgia now colouring our attitude to old media?

Can digital rescue analogue from chemical and casual decay?

The AHRB Centre for British Film and Television presents a day of screening and discussion focused on issues raised by the passage now under way from analogue to digital culture in audiovisual media. From presenting pre-cinema toys and artefacts in digital form - as Werner Nekes, the collector behind the Hayward's record-breaking 'Eye Lies and Illusions' show has done - to speculation about a change in theoretical pardadigm of spectatorship, as proposed by Laura Mulvey, this day will offer a unique chance to engage with the challenges we are living through - in terms of practice and theory. Presentations by Patrick Keiller, Malcolm Le Grice, Laura Mulvey, Ian Christie, and Steven Ball.

Organised in collaboration by: Birkbeck, University of London; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London; and the Royal College of Art.

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