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<div align="center"><tt>UNSW Media Film and Theatre
Seminars</tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt>Wednesday 17 May 2006</tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt>5 p.m. Webster Building<font size="-1"
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<div align="center"><tt><font size="+3"><b>Nachtr<font
color="#000000">ä</font>glichkeit</b></font></tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt><font size="+1"><i>an aesthetics of immanence
and trauma</i></font></tt></div>
<div align="center"><tt><font size="+3"><b>Dennis del
Favero</b></font></tt></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">Pierre
Janet coined the classic spatial formulation of trauma when he argued
that in the normal course of events, experiences are processed through
processes that enable them to be constituted as narrative. Trauma,
however, resists such processing. As Jill Bennett has noted, trauma
for Janet is not so much<i> remembered</i> as subject to uncontrolled
repetition. "It is only for convenience that we speak of it as a
'traumatic memory' ... The subject is often incapable of making the
necessary narrative which we call memory regarding the eventŠ". If
trauma is so opposed to narrative representation then how can we
artistically engage with trauma when what characterises trauma is its
anti-representional and anti-narrative nature? Freud, in contrast,
coined the concept of<i> nachtraglichkeit</i> to suggest the
dynamically temporal nature of trauma. The paper investigates these
concepts in relation to a series of new media projects undertaken by
the artist between 2003 and 2006. These works do not represent trauma
in an attempt to induce a traumatic experience in an audience, but
rather, aim to dramatize the productiveness of trauma as it engages
the past and future through the present.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Dennis Del Favero
is a Sydney-based artist and research fellow. His video and
photographic works have been widely shown in Europe as well as
Australia. He has published on digital media and he
is</i></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1"
color="#000000"><i> Managing Editor of the</i> Digital Arts Edition<i>
series. </i></font><font face="Times" size="-1"
color="#000000"><i> He is currently a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
and Co-Director of the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
at UNSW, as well as Artist-in-Resident at ZKM</i></font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000">, Centre for Art and
Media, Karlsruhe</font><font face="Times" size="-1"
color="#000000"><i>.</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000"><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1"
color="#000000">www.icinema.unsw.edu.au</font><br>
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<div><tt>Dr James Donald<br>
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences<br>
Professor of Film Studies, School of Media, Film and Theatre<br>
University of New South Wales<br>
Sydney<br>
NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
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