Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image

Bridges contemporary art (film/video and sound installation), neuropsychology and culture pointing to the synergies and insight that can be gained from this interdisciplinary approach for an understanding of individual and interpersonal, cultural and transcultural remembering Addresses topical issues concerning latency, amnesia, trauma, and interference as relevant to both individual, cultural and transcultural remembering, drawing attention to the impinging affective relevance of what is silenced or unrememberedExamines how the moving image has acted and still acts as cultural referent for memory and forgetting through a discussion of contemporary artworks and the immersive memory-scapes that they createConsiders the modern and contemporary conceptualization of memory and the theorization of forgetting and argues the centrality of forgetting for an understanding of memory and brings it to bear to today's global memory practices