WHEN:04.16.08 | 5-7 PM |
WHERE: 32-155 (note date and location)
Remembering Los Angeles in the Digital Age: Pat O'Neill's The Decay of Fiction
Edward Dimenberg
Los Angeles artist and special effects virtuoso Pat O'Neill filmed
The Decay of Fiction (2002) in the landmark Ambassador Hotel, once
the center of Hollywood celebrity culture. His film blurs the
boundaries between architectural investigation, urban documentation,
and aesthetic exploration. At once a poetic homage to classical film
genres, it is also a suggestive indication of how remembering the
city is changing in response to new technologies. Edward Dimendberg
is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies,
and German at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity (2004), co-editor of The
Weimar Republic Sourcebook (1994), and currently serves as
Multimedia Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Comparative Media Studies at MIT
MIT-GAMBIT Game Lab
NE25-385
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
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