{"id":3729,"date":"2021-03-15T23:10:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3729"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:10:36","slug":"conference-dispositifs-the-statistical-complex-film-as-a-dispositif-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/event\/conference-dispositifs-the-statistical-complex-film-as-a-dispositif-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Conf\u00e9rence Dispositifs | The Statistical Complex: Film as a Dispositif of Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fu-blue\"><strong>Mercredi 21 avril 2021 (18h00 &#8211; 20h00) &#8211; Unith\u00e8que &#8211; 4.215, Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"fu-blue\"><strong>The Statistical Complex: Film as a Dispositif of Testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"fu-blue\"><strong>Fabienne Liptay (Universit\u00e9 de Z\u00fcrich)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Testing is a common practice deployed in a broad field of social engineering and governance. It relies on venturous experimentation as well as calculation and estimation in the service of risk management, controlling processes and even predicting their probable outcomes based on statistical reasoning. Testing thus operates on social life by creating scenarios in which social order is maintained, disrupted, or restored according to prescriptive and regulatory measures. In my lecture, I will explore the idea that film not only participates in social life, but is also placed in the service of its testing. The works discussed are Andy Warhol\u2019s\u00a0Screen Tests(1964-66), William Greaves\u2019s\u00a0Symbiopsychotaxiplasm\u00a0(1968), and Hito Steyerl\u2019s\u00a0SocialSim\u00a0(2020), all of which use technologies of testing to explore the social complexities and tensions at play in the process of their making. Albeit diverse, these works critically engage with theoretical models and practices from the social sciences (Alphonse Bertillon in Warhol, Arthur F. Bentley in Greaves, and Joshua Epstein in Steyerl) to reveal the technological and ideological parameters used to regulate and control society. Departing from Tony Bennett\u2019s concept of the \u201cexhibitionary complex\u201d and its indebtedness to Foucault, I wish to draw attention to another web of relations, one in which power is exercised not through modes of visibility, but through statistical measures operating in and through images as part of the \u201ctransactional realities\u201d of civil society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dispositifs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt; Lien vers le site du groupe de recherche\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/dispositifs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dispositifs<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercredi 21 avril 2021 (18h00 &#8211; 20h00) &#8211; Unith\u00e8que &#8211; 4.215, Universit\u00e9 de Lausanne The Statistical Complex: Film as a Dispositif of Testing Fabienne Liptay (Universit\u00e9 de Z\u00fcrich) Testing is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001537,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-3729","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/3729\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/metis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}