The Urban Images symposium brings together an internationally renowned group of artists and scholars for a two-day program in order to discuss the field of artistic film and video related to architecture and urban space. The objective of the symposium is to expand theoretical concepts and artistic tools for understanding the inherent qualities of moving images and its relationship to urban culture. The program touches upon moving images' influence on urban architecture, urban architecture's relationship to avant-garde film, the city as a source for artistic film and video, and reflections on urban architecture in recent film and video art.

Considering the globally expanding urban developments and the increasingly fluid borders between research in architecture and moving images, this symposium presents an important cross-disciplinary research in the fields of architecture and visual practice. Bearing in mind Gilles Deleuze's sensitivity to the ways in which contemporary culture is becoming fundamentally an audiovisual culture, the symposium will outline ontological and psychological relationships to moving images in the context of urban environment.

The following people will present their most recent research in this field: Parveen Adams, Giuliana Bruno, Bull.Miletic, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Henrik Gustafsson, Marit Paasche, Judy Radul and Susanne Østbye Sæther.

The papers and artistic presentations from the symposium will be published in a book scheduled for release in early 2011.

September 9
09:00 Registration and coffee
09:30 Welcome
09:45-10:45 Tom Gunning: One-Way street: The urban chronotype of the street and its logic in cinema
10:45-11:45 Bull.Miletic: Heaven Can Wait
11:45-12:00 Coffee
12:00-13:00 Edward Dimendberg: The Persistence of the Cinematic in Contemporary Media Architecture: The Case of Diller Scofidio + Renfro
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Andreas Bunte: Artificial Paradises
15:00-16:00 Giuliana Bruno: Fabrics of Light: Architecture and Cinema
16:00-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:00 Parveen Adams: Sticking to the Plot of David Lynch's Inland Empire

September 10
09:30 Registration and coffee
09:45-10:45 Beatriz Colomina: Enclosed by Images
10:45-11:45 Marit Paasche: The New Protagonist. A Few Remarks on the Films of Hito Steyrl
11:45-12:00 Coffee
12:00-13:00 Judy Radul: World Rehearsal Court
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Mark Cousins: The Place of Location
15:00-16:00 Henrik Gustafsson: Postmodern Travelogues: Keiller, Lanzmann & Ackermann
16:00-16:15 Coffee
16:15-17:15 Susanne Østbye Sæther: Cinema as Social Site
17:15-18:00 Questions and Answers