[eccr] CFP: MULTIMEDIA HISTORIES: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet

>CFP: MULTIMEDIA HISTORIES: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet
>
>An international conference organised by the AHRB Centre for British Film
>and Television Studies (www.bftv.ac.uk), and the Bill Douglas Centre,
>University of Exeter.  This conference is the culmination of an AHRB
>project investigating the continuities between nineteenth-century optical
>recreations and subsequent screen technologies. It will take place at the
>University of Exeter on 21-23 July 2003.
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>One of the most dominant critical concerns of recent years has been the
>attempt to understand the impact of a multimedia culture. The scope and
>limits of a multimedia culture have become associated with issues of
>virtual reality; interactivity; media convergence and hybridity;
>body/technology couplings, etc. These familiar narratives, however, have a
>much more extended history than is often realised.
>
>Multimedia Histories will examine the long genealogy of multimedia usage
>and discourse. From the 19th C onwards, the proliferation of screen
>technologies and optical recreations has been an important element of
>popular culture. Moreover, the exhibition and consumption of these
>entertainments was often defined by their interrelationship. The mid
>nineteenth-century drawing room, for example, typically included
>stereoscopes and praxinoscopes alongside the magic lantern.
>
>The conference is keen to pursue a comparative approach by focusing on
>specific historical moments of convergence and hybridity. In so doing, it
>aims to locate the aesthetics of the new media in relation to an
>intermedial tradition of public and domestic forms of screen entertainment.
>The principal question it hopes to address is this - to what extent do
>recent multimedia technologies extend established features of cinema,
>television, and the panoply 19th C and 20th C optical recreations?
>
>Papers are particularly invited on the following key areas:
>
>- Moments of media convergence and hybridity
>- Immersion, interactivity and the embodied spectator
>- Spaces of consumption and the organisation of audiences, virtual and/or
>actual.
>- Modes of production and exhibition
>- Screen technologies and the tropes conceptualising their usage
>- Boundaries and linkages between domestic and public screen entertainment
>
>It is planned to produce an edited collection of papers from the
>conference.
>Please send abstracts of c.300 words to (mediahist /at/ exeter.ac.uk), or by
>hardcopy to: Multimedia Conference, School of English, University of
>Exeter, EXETER, EX4 4QH, U.K.  Deadline for Abstracts: 1 January 2003
>
>Conference Organisers: Dr James Lyons and Dr John Plunkett.


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