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The last week... (...more)
The days of this EGS residency are winding down now. I've been too busy to post. Check out the new pics. Quickly here are a few more of what's been going on: Sandy Stone, who worked with us last year,...June 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
EGS and French Filmmakers (...more)
The other night Claude Lanzmann, best known for his 9.5 hour Holocaust documentary Shoah, screened and discussed his film Sobibor. Our group is now working with Claire Denis. She screened a recent film L'Intrus (The Intruder) last night which was...June 11, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Media Theory Boot Camp Blues (...more)
We've just come through the inevitable mid-residency lull. Having been in the mountains for over two weeks now, emotions have been running high around this place and there is plenty of daily drama. Hanging out with poets, filmmakers, designers, philosophers.....what...June 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Through Day 13 (...more)
Manuel De Landa and his reading of Gilles Delueze was enjoyable and most interesting. Deleuze reached into the sciences to liberate new discoveries which had profound and widespread implications. He would expand, extend and unfold them, in great detail, and...June 8, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The EGS routine (...more)
I am settled into a very simple routine here, not unlike last year. Here's how a typical day unfolds: 9am: Get up. (it's a good hour) 9am-9:45am: wash, eat breakfast, chat 9:45am: walk 1k up hill to ampitheatre and classroom...June 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Nicholson Baker and the American Newspaper Repository (...more)
We were treated to a reading and a presentation by Nicholson Baker the other night. He writes great fiction about a lot of everyday, seemingly ordinary things, and has a gentle way of pointing out both that which truly matters...June 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Cixous out, De Landa in (...more)
We were scheduled to work with Helene Cixous but when pneumonia prevented her from coming our group was collapsed into a seminar led by Manuel De Landa. As far as I am concerned, this is great. Cixous is really well-known...June 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Hello from Hannig (...more)
We decided to go for a hike today, our first day off. Here's a simple (and compressed) little video clip I grabbed while stopping for a drink at the Hannig base. (can't view it? Try a better browser).June 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The unnerving phd Colloquiam (2005) (...more)
Yesterday, which happened also to be my 32nd birthday, during what's known as our phd colloquiam I presented my dissertation, as it stands, to Wolfgang and the broader group. Of course I knew it could not go any worse than...June 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Yodeling postcard (...more)
Here is an audio postcard from Switzerland with clips from Frankfurt airport and from the orientation session which opened the June program here at EGS.June 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Day Four Notes (...more)
Just a quick update....day four of EGS 2005 is half-over. Everything is going fine. We're working now with Victor Vintanza talking about Pre-Platonic Greek Philosophy (mostly Pre-Socratic) and the way it has been read and re-read over the centuries. Last...May 30, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
EGS 2005: Photographs (...more)
For more photo's of my European Adventure see here. Here's the view outside the EGS classroom centre. Last year's photo's are here.May 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Day One: Done (...more)
Day One is done. When I woke up Thursday morning the pain and stiffness in my back had gotten worse and I realized I had better see a doctor. The kind doc worked me over with sterotypical Swiss precision. He...May 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
EGS wraps (...more)
Well, Wolfgang and I were able to smooth things over. He asked me to write an essay on "Schirmacher's Philosophy of Technology" which I did, and didn`t mind doing. In the process I read eight of his articles. A few...June 19, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Drama at EGS (...more)
My EGS experience has taken a dramatic turn. In Friday's class each phd student was asked to present to the Dean the ideas and plans we had for developing our dissertation. I was randomly selected to go first. Without hearing...June 13, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBack
More Photos (...more)
From fellow student Danielle Booth comes these photos of the EGS experience.June 13, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
One Week to Go (...more)
Two weeks down and one to go. Last night we attended a lecture by reknowned sculptor Antony Gormley. Students in the other section are buzzing with the arrival of Jean Baudrillard, and anticipating Jean-Luc Nancy and Sam Weber. Though I...June 11, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
The Week in Review (...more)
Well there's too much happening here, and too fast, to keep up these updates. Here in brief are some highlights. Martin Hielscher gave us an introduction to the fascinating thinking of Theodor Adorno. Michael Schmidt and Paul D. Miller, also...June 9, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The People of EGS (...more)
As I've said elsewhere, the students of EGS consist chiefly of filmmakers, theorists, web developers, designers, and writers. For a place that calls itself the 'European Graduate School' there are a lot of Americans, mostly from NYC and LA. That...June 6, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Oh no! (...more)
Disaster has struck! My computer crashed. A worm went through the network here, messed up my machine, and now I'm scrambling to rebuild. Unfortunately I packed very lightly and I'm not very prepared. I'm still checking email at markehemphill@hotmail.com.June 6, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Colum McCann (...more)
Summmer Residencies at EGS are quite intensive. We attend classes in the day and lectures, presentations, film screenings, or round table discussions each night. In class we discuss that which we have read over the winter, that which our instructor...June 1, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Chantal Akerman (...more)
Today at EGS we spent the day with Chantal Akerman, Belgian-born filmmaker and recent winner of Unesco's Fellini medal. "Bush is very dangerous, it's true. But Moore too is a demagogue" -Akerman, on Michael Moore winning the Palme D'Or.May 29, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Arrived in Saas-fee (...more)
Well after some 19 hours I've made it to Saas-fee. I flew from Charlottetown to Halifax (Prince Edward Air was a trip - try it) and from Halifax to Frankfurt. From there I hopped a train to Basel Germany, another...May 27, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (11) | TrackBack
The Tulse Luper Suitcases (...more)
I just discovered this ambitious project - from what I can make of it a film trilogy, experiment in multimedia, television series, and dvd set all loosely tied together. The project tracks filmmaker Peter Greenaway's alter-ego hero Tulse Luper through...November 26, 2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
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