The international conference “Histories of Tacit Cinematic Knowledge” invites scholars to further theorize and historicize “tacit cinematic knowledge” in its different configurations. Specific questions to be addressed include: What is the unnoticed part of cinematic knowledge in the production of scientific evidence? How do techniques and templates from film affect architectural design, musical composition, or sports performance? How do modes of circulation and formats of film reshape human and non-human interactions and what types of political action do they inconspicuously give rise to? How does “tacit cinematic knowledge” create inequalities through processes of colonizing, and of gendering societies, or what is the potential of “tacit cinematic knowledge” in opposing institutional discrimination? What impact do configurations of film beyond the cinema have on economies of production, distribution, and consumption? How do film-based technologies inform policies of security and regulate the circulation of people? How do filmic procedures generate affect and emotions in areas that apparently have nothing to do with film?
(Text sourced from conference website)