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Biographical note
Blandine Joret (°1987, Belgium) is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (University of Amsterdam). She previously obtained a bachelor degree in Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven (2008) and a cum laude degree Master of Art at the University of Amsterdam (2009). She has conducted research on André Bazin, digital aesthetics of internal framing, simultaneity and fragmentation of perception, the work of Peter Greenaway and Wim Wenders, and is interested in topics such as the evolution of media, the cinematic representation of space, framing, geography, spatial cognition and the dynamics between the local and the global. Blandine is alsoan active member of NECS (The European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) andNICA (The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis).
Ph.D Project: "The World in its own Image"; on limitless representations where cartography merges with eye-sight perceptions
This project aspires to be a media-archaeological study of limitless representations in which the cartographic abstraction and direct eyesight perception are in constant dialogue. Guided by French film theorist André Bazin, who proclaimed the cinema to be essentially a reality of space, I will study digital spatial representations, highlighting the importance of his writings for understanding contemporary cinema, and building upon his conception of a cinema ‘not yet invented’. More than half a century after his influential What Is Cinema?, cinema has undergone considerable mutations, rendering Bazin’s quest more pertinent for media studies today. This proposed research attempts to provide a contemporary reading of Bazin, built on a close analysis of how spatial mediations influence our conception of the universe. Centered on key concepts like presence, mediation, point of view, distance, and closeness, this study will look at how an altered experience of space is incorporated in the artistic representation of limitlessness.
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Patricia Pisters, dr. Marie-Aude Baronian