Histories of Tacit Cinematic Knowledge

Tacit

Cinematic

Knowledge

The notion of tacit cinematic knowledge designates a broad variety of epistemic environments in which knowledge is configured in and through cinematic practices. As an operative term, tacit cinematic knowledge is supposed to help scholars and practitioners in their engagements with moving images as everchanging aesthetic and epistemic configurations.

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TCK. A Podcast Series About Film Outside of Cinema

The podcast series engages with the potential spaces in which we encounter filmic images in our everyday lives. On smartphones or billboards, in airports, in our working environments and laboratories – but always outside of the cinematic dispositif. Together with their guests, Rebecca Boguska and Sophia Gräfe discover cultural phenomena and visual worlds that would not have existed without film.

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Tacit Cinematic Knowledge: Approaches and Practices

Tacit Cinematic Knowledge discusses how knowledge is configured in and through cinematic practices, and in interaction with moving images. The contributions engage with diverse epistemic environments such as political campaigns, medical care, corporate communications, coastal engineering, and astronomical observations. They highlight different forms of cinematic knowledge and unpack the variety of cinematic knowledge practices.

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Histories of Tacit Cinematic Knowledge

The online conference took place from September 24 to September 26, 2020, in the virtual space of the Goethe University Frankfurt. It was also the final conference of the first cohort of PhD students at the Graduate Research Training Program 2279 “Configurations of Film.” This webpage provides access to the pre-recorded talks and keynotes, which, drawing on the notion of tacit cinematic knowledge, explored the groundwork for theorizing implicit epistemic templates configured by film forms and techniques.

Configurations

of Film

Graduate Research Training Program 2279