[ecrea] cfp: TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSMEDIALITY

>TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSMEDIALITY
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>Thursday 6th - Saturday 8th January 2011
>University of Bristol, Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
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>What happens when films, television programmes or live performances
>adapt,=20 translate or incorporate material which originates in a different
>medium,=20 migrating across media or involving combinations of media?
>Technologies of =
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>Transmediality explores the impact of a range of different technologies
>on=20 performance and screen media in the broadest sense, involving film,=20
>television and theatre histories, but also literature and language studies,
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>historians of technology as well as researchers in digital technologies=20
>from computer sciences and engineering. Theoretical, practical and=20
>interpretative contexts will be deployed in relation to the theme,=20
>provoking dynamic comparisons and the sharing of different disciplinary=20
>insights and perspectives.
>
>The symposium brings together researchers from the World University Network
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>institutions from the USA and UK in an intensive three-day event focused=20
>around four keynote addresses from Prof Mike van den Heuvel (Wisconsin),=20
>Prof Jeff Smith (Wisconsin), Prof Sarah Street (Bristol), and Prof
>Phillip=20 Thurtle (Washington).  There will also be a performance by
>Bodies in Flight =
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>exploring the use of photography in live performance, directed by Prof=20
>Simon Jones (Bristol), and a screening of extracts from films and=20
>television programmes which involve the import/impact of popular music as=20
>transmedial experience, compiled and introduced by Dr Kevin Donnelly=20
>(Southampton).
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>The discussion will be developed through four themed panels on
>transmedial=20 forms and texts in screen and performance:
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>"       Historical and contemporary examples
>"       Comparative issues arising from multiple frames of reference
>"       Theoretical models for technologies and transmediality
>"       The practice of transmedial art and technologies
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>Paper presentations are invited for the above panels.  Abstracts should
>be=20 between 150 and 200 words in length, plus full contact details and
>any=20 affiliation, and emailed to (Deborah.gibbs /at/ bristol.ac.uk) by Friday
>29th=20 October.  In order to keep the event focused and maximize dialogue,
>numbers =
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>will be limited to panel presenters only, who will be notified by 8th=20
>November.  There is a registration fee of =A350 which includes lunches,
>an=20 evening meal and refreshments.
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>For further information:=20
>http://www.wun.ac.uk/events/technologies-transmediality
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>Dr A A Piccini
>Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
>School of Arts
>University of Bristol
>Cantocks Close, Woodland Road
>Bristol BS8 1UP
>
>T: 0117 331-5087
>E: (a.a.piccini /at/ bristol.ac.uk)
>Skype: aapiccini
>W: www.bris.ac.uk/drama/staff_research/angela_piccini/
>

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