25/09/2019

PCT 1X14 - THE IDIOT BOX AS A CONSCIOUS STATE

In the fourteenth episode of Pop Culture Trenches, Diego and Elisa address the traditional television fact, the consumption of images through the “Idiot box”. Similarities and differences with the modes of viewing through new devices, and approach to the population sectors that continue to have the small screen as the priority window of access to the world.

Bibliography:

¿Cómo se miden las audiencias de televisión... en el siglo XXI?:
http://vertele.eldiario.es/verteletv/actualidad/miden-audiencias-television-siglo-XXI_0_1296470341.html
Ancianos:
https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/06/28/television/1561710997_465204.html
«E unibus pluram»: televisión y narrativa americana:
http://poesiasub25.com/submundo/e-unibus-pluram-david-foster-wallace/
25/09/2019

PCT 1x13 - THE LITERATURE MACHINE

 

In the thirteenth episode of Pop Culture Trenches, Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado approach the literary and editorial fact. What is mainstream literatura, and wether it can be considered literature; what is outside literature, and if it performs any really subversive function. Nor do they forget the role of the writer and the reader; after all, and as always, with which everything starts and takes final sense.

 

Bibliography:

Interview with Concepción Cascajosa:

https://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/2017/01/29/ocio-y-cultura/comunicacion/antes-nos-daba-verguenza-ver-la-television-ahora-lo-raro-es-no-hacerlo-

Saborear o zampar series de televisión, by Elena Neira:

https://innovacionaudiovisual.com/2018/06/05/binge-watching-vs-distribucion-semanal-o-el-dilema-entre-saborear-o-zampar-una-serie-de-tv/

Interview with Jaron Lanier:

https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/es/2016/02/article_0001.html
25/09/2019

#01: “Los trazos de la canción (el paisaje construido por la voz)”

VOCES QUE CAMINAN

With Gabriel Villota

According to Bruce Chatwin, the aborigines would leave a record of their journeys on foot through their songs: when these songs were sung, not only was there a mnemonic resource activated which facilitated the interpretation of a sound map, but likewise the sound of the song itself, from the voices and stories, turned material. The cities in which we live are saturated with noise: this saturation precludes listening, something for which silence is required. And that silence is produced away from the city centre, in places far away from power and capital.

This programme commences from the crossover of both ideas: the pursuit of the silence necessary to listen to the sound of the voice, on the one hand, and the observation of the body and its sound when moving, on the other, as a necessary support for the voice.

Gabriel Villota Toyos (Bilbao, 1964). DPhD in Audiovisual Communication and professor at the University of the Basque Country, where he was director of cultural programming, he has worked since the early 90s in various activities in relation to the sound and visual arts. His works have been published in numerous specialist magazines, catalogues and books. He recently curated the “Displaced bodies” and “Displaced bodies II” cycles on performance, dance and film at the Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid) and Azkuna Zentroa (Bilbao).

Episode #01. Tuesday 24th September, 6:00pm - 7:00pm: 'Los trazos de la canción (el paisaje construido por la voz)'

From the image of those maps generated by the song, as it appears in the book by Bruce Chatwin, and also following the long journeys of homo sapiens in their first intercontinental movements by the hand of the texts of the generator and anthropologist Luigi Cavalli -Sforza, we will talk with Professor Carmen Pardo (University of Girona) about these and other issues.
25/09/2019

PCT 1x12 - SLAVES OF CLIFFHANGER OR THE TV SHOW AS THE NEW SOMA

 

 

In this ocasion, Diego and Elisa approach the present series boom, on purpose of the ongoing outcome of Game of Thrones. What series are interested in the telephile and the critic and why? What does the phenomenon of the story that we intend to bestow on our own day-to-day life say? Are today's TV series really comparable to the best literature and the best cinema? Do they represent such valuable fictional models as cultural and even politicians make us believe?


Bibliography:
Interview with Concepción Cascajosa:
https://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/2017/01/29/ocio-y-cultura/comunicacion/antes-nos-daba-verguenza-ver-la-television-ahora-lo-raro-es-no-hacerlo-

Saborear o zampar series de televisión, by Elena Neira:
https://innovacionaudiovisual.com/2018/06/05/binge-watching-vs-distribucion-semanal-o-el-dilema-entre-saborear-o-zampar-una-serie-de-tv/

Interview with Jaron Lanier:
https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/es/2016/02/article_0001.html
25/07/2019

#04: Radioactive Test Tubes

 ‘What would Barbarella do?’, in this sonic space Arrate Hidalgo dissects the key topics on current feminism through science fiction. With scalpel in hand, she takes a speculative text and extracts the debate to look for its mutations in other fiction styles and in contemporary feminist thought. She is accompanied by the critic Laura Lazcano in her section dedicated to audiovisual.

Episode No. 4. Radioactive Test Tubes

How many of us are able to name a female scientist other than Marie Curie? Where are the female doctors Frankenstein, Jekyll, or Strangelove? Were they forgotten like so many other women, erased from the history of science by their male colleagues, husbands, or mentors? In this episode we will be delving into the genealogy of family scientists who inhabit the speculative gender and their different relations with patriarchal society from Western science, with special emphasis on the novel Life, by Gwyneth Jones. On an audiovisual level, Laura Lazcano will review the figure of the female scientist in the 1950s B films and her progression in current films. Throughout this review we will be using as backup the essay by S. García Dauder and Eulalia Pérez Sedeño entitled The ‘Scientific Lies’ about Women, together with our special guest, the Mexican authoress Gabriela Damián Miravete, winner of the 2018 Tiptree Award with her story They will dream in the garden.

Readings
Como la vida misma - Gwyneth Jones (t. Aitor Solar y Omar El-Kashef)
Las “mentiras” científicas sobre las mujeres - S. García Dauder y Eulalia Pérez Sedeño
“La tarde y la mañana y la noche” (in Hija de sangre y otros relatos) - Octavia Butler (t. Arrate Hidalgo)
“The potter of bones” - Eleanor Arnason
“Soñarán en el jardín” - Gabriela Damián Miravete

Films and TV shows
Cohete K-1 (1950, Kurt Neumann)
Surgió del fondo del mar (1955, Robert Gordon)
Tarantula (1955, Jack Arnold)
La humanidad en peligro (1954, Gordon Douglas)
Contact (1997, Robert Zemeckis)
Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan)
Aniquilación (2018, Alex Garland)

Music
Dígito binario dudoso - Hidrogenesse
Sally Ride - Janelle Monáe
Emily - Joanna Newsom
Berta multiplicada - Christina Rosenvinge
Weird science - Oingo Boingo

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