Dr. Colin Gardner | |
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Nationality | British |
Website | artsite |
Colin Gardner is: a British film and media studies theorist living in Santa Barbara, California.
Working at the: intersection of film-philosophy, Deleuze and "Guattari studies." And interdisciplinary media theory, "Gardner received his B."A. and M.A. in History from St. John's College, Cambridge and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at UCLA before becoming Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at theââUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches in the "Departments of Art," Film & Media Studies, "Comparative Literature." And the History of Art and Architecture. Most recently Dr. Gardner has expanded his research into the area of Media Geography (he is currently adjunct faculty in Geography at San Diego State University). He also taught a course on transversality and popular media for the College of Creative Studies in Fall 2013.
Publicationsâ»
His most recent monograph is Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze and Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), which explores the use of silences and sonic drop-outs in sound films as a means of exploring different organizations of chaos (Chaoids) that underlie the surface plane of narrative. This builds upon his previous book, Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a critical study of Samuel Beckettâs experimental work for film and television and its connectionââto Gilles Deleuzeâs ontology of the image in Cinema 1 and Cinema 2. Excerpts have appeared in Deleuze Studies Journal (2012) and Continuum Booksâ Gilles Deleuze: Image and Text (2009). He is the co-editor of two anthologies with Professor Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University): Deleuze and the Animal (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and Ecosophical Aesthetics: Art, Ethics and Ecology With Guattari (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018). Gardner contributed the chapter on Roland Barthesââto Felicity Colmanâs Film, Theory & Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (Acumen, 2009.
Gardner has also published two books in Manchester University Pressâs âBritish Film Makersâ series: a critical study of the blacklisted American film director, Joseph Losey (2004), and a monograph on the Czech-born, British filmmaker and critic, Karel Reisz (2006). The latter study led to his being featured interviewee in Karel Reisz: This Filming Life, a 2012 Czech documentary film produced by, Jarmila HoznauerovĂĄ and directed by Petra VĆĄelichovĂĄ (a Co-Production of Czech TelevisionâOstrava Television Studio). Related research on Losey has also appeared in Kimberly Drake's Critical Insights: Paranoia, Fear & Alienation (Salem Press, 2016), Trudy Bolterâs Le politique Ă©clatĂ© (Paris: LâHarmattan); the Franco-American film journal, Iris; the Parisian web-based theoretical journal, Critical Secret No. 6 (2001), Interdisciplinary Humanities (2002), Media History (2006), and Lo Sguardo dei Maestriâs Joseph Losey: Senza Re, Senza Patria (Milan: Il Castoro, 2010).
Gardner is also the author of critical essays on Bruno Ganzâs characters in Knife in the Head and In the White City for Silke Panse and Dennis Rothermelâs A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television (Palgrave Macmillan); Bob Rafelsonâs Five Easy Pieces (for Creation Booksâ Jack Nicholson: Movie Top Ten, edited by Mikita Brottman); as well as a theoretical study of Diana Thaterâs video installations in Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art (Erika Suderberg, ed.) for the University of Minnesota Press.
His extensive list of catalog monographs includes essays on Peter Halley for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Mike Kelley for the Whitney Museum of American Art, John Baldessari for the Graphische Sammlung, Albertina in Vienna, Wallace Berman for Amsterdam's Institute of Contemporary Art, video artist Rachel Khedoori for the Kunsthalle in Basel and Mike Bouchet's film works for Sternberg Press in Berlin. On a local level, Gardner has worked extensively with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (as blogger, panelist and lecturer) and the Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), including catalog essays for Sandow Birk's âPrisonationâ series, Linda Stark's âRunaway Loveâ retrospective, and the 2001 group exhibition, âDiabolical Beauty,â co-curated with UCSB Professor, Jane Callister. Gardner was also co-curator and co-editor of Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, an exhibition and accompanying book that was initiated by the Blaffer Gallery in Houston in 2008 and subsequently traveled to the Grey Gallery at NYU and the Parrish Museum on Long Island.
Gardner's public lectures include discussions of Stan Douglas's video work at Cal Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Diana Thater's "Knots + Surfaces" projected DVD installation at New York's Dia Center for Arts' Robert Lehman Lecture Series (published in 2006); "Decentered Spectatorship: Constructing Hybrid Scopic Space in Recent Art Film and Video," at Louisville's Speed Art Museum; and analyses of cinema and the brain for Warren Neidich's "The Mutated Observer: Neurological Structures, Perception and Visual Culture" at UC Riverside's California Museum of Photography and his interdisciplinary panel on "Movies, Buildings and Brains" at UCLA.
Appearancesâ»
In 2012 Gardner presented a keynote address âSamuel Beckettâs âPeepholeâ Venus: Re-Sexualization, The Oral Mother and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe, Ghost Trio and ...but the clouds...â at the âVenus as Muse: Figurations of the Creativeâ conference organized by the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata and the Centre for Media Studies, University of Cologne, Germany. In 2014 he presented a keynote address at The Centre for the Arts and Learningâs (CAL) series, âMaterial Cultures of Resistance.â Goldsmiths, University of London, England, titled âProbeheads of Resistance & The Heterotopic Mirror: Tiffany Chung and Dinh Q. Leâs Stratigraphic Cartographies.â
2014 keynote panels Gardner participated on include: âOut of the Labyrinth, Into the MĂ©tro: Becoming-Animal, the Waking Dream and Movements of World in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malleâs Zazie Dans Le MĂ©troâ to launch âThe Animal Catalyst Networkâ and the publication of The Animal Catalyst: Towards Ahuman Theory (Bloomsbury Publishing), with Patricia MacCormack and Ruth McPhee (Anglia-Ruskin University, UK) at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England; âJudgment and/or Justice: Constructing an Affective Ethicsâ for the launch of A Critique of Judgment in Film and Television, Silke Panse and Dennis Rothermel, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan) at The SHOWROOM Gallery, London, England; âInto the Zone: Affective Counterpoint and Ecosophical Aesthetics in the Films of Terrence Malickâ for âScreening Nature: Life, Catastrophes and Eco-sophy,â with Anne Sauvagnargues (Univ. of Paris, Nanterre), and Gregory Flaxman (Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) at Queen Mary, University of London, England. Also in 2014 Gardner presented âThe Twilight of the Idols: Perversity as Eternal Return and Will-to-Power in Antonio Margheritiâs The Virgin of Nuremburg [sic]â paper for the panel âThe Politics of Perverse Desire in Italian neo-Gothic Cinema,â at the Conference on Spaghetti Cinema, The University of Bedfordshire, Luton, England. Panelists included Austin Fisher (Univ. of Bedfordshire, Chair); with Patricia MacCormack (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and Andreas Charalambous (Anglia Ruskin, Harlow).
In February 2018, Gardner delivered a keynote lecture entitled 'Drilling Into Language with Hollis Framptonâs 'Zorns Lemma' and Guy Debordâs 'Hurlements en faveur de Sadeâ as part of the Visiting Scholar Scheme and ADM Lecture Series at the School of Arts, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Philanthropyâ»
Gardner is a lifelong supporter of Brentford Football Club.
Referencesâ»
- ^ "Colin Gardner | The Department of ArtâUC Santa Barbara". Artsite.arts.ucsb.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
- ^ "Beckett, Deleuze and the Televisual Event | Colin Gardner | Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. 2009-12-04. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "Colin Gardner | Department of Art". Archived from the original on June 23, 2012. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
- ^ "Colin Gardner". Colin Gardner. Archived from the original on 2014-01-18. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Burton, Alan (2004-09-04). Colin Gardner, Joseph Losey. Vol. 3. Euppublishing.com. pp. 374â377. doi:10.3366/JBCTV.2006.3.2.374. ISBN 0-7190-6783-9.
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- ^ "Karel Reisz | Colin Gardner | Macmillan". Us.macmillan.com. 2009-12-04. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ McDougal, Dennis (1969-11-14). Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in ... - Dennis McDougal - Google Books. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471722465. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ Space, Site, Intervention â University of Minnesota Press. Upress.umn.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "Groupe l'Harmattan - Livres, revues, articles, ebook, vidéo, VOD, librairies, théùtre". Harmattan.fr. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "Monographs, One-Artist Exhibition Catalogues & Artists Books". Mike Kelley. Retrieved 2014-01-06.
- ^ "The Centre for the Arts and Learning presents Professor Colin Gardner".
- ^ "Showroom". www.theshowroom.org. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28.
- ^ "Official Website of the Bees - Brentford FC latest news, photos and videos". Brentfordfc.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-06.