The Memorial Lecture was preceded by a tribute given by the Chancellor and by a personal appreciation by David Stratton, former Director of The Sydney Film Festival. Edited versions of their presentations are included in this publication.
…This gift has come as a consequence of a mother thinking of how an irreparable loss could be turned into some kind of human gain. That is what Madame Gré has done. She has given immortality to her daughter whose remembrance will be in all t…Around 1980 Mari's enthusiasm for film led her to the role of film programmer for the Oxford Film Festival, a job which she performed in the exemplary manner so characteristic of her. Then, late in 1982, Mari was appointed Programme
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Madame Gré
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Madame Gré appears in these course materials primarily as a patron and benefactor rather than as a theorist or practitioner of art and technology herself. The excerpts suggest she established some kind of memorial or endowment—possibly connected to her daughter—that supported film festival work and institutional programming in the late twentieth century. Her relevance to Pandaemonium Architecture seems marginal; she functions here as an historical figure enabling cultural infrastructure rather than engaging directly with questions of AI, cybernetics, or computational aesthetics.
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