[ecrea] CFP: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

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Date: 4/1/2011
From: "Lewis Johnson"<(lewiskjohnson /at/ gmail.com)>
Subject: CFP: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture – dead line extended


CFP: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture – deadline extended



International Symposium in Visual Culture



Bahçeşehir University, Faculty of Communications, Department of
Photography
and Video

20, 21 May 2011



New Deadline: 10.4.2011



*Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture*, the first of a series of
international symposia on visual culture to be held at Bahçeşehir
University, Ä°stanbul, aims to enable discussion and debate on topics
critical in the conceptualization, analysis, evaluation of and
intervention
in visual culture today.



Once apparently marginal, critical debate in visual culture over mobility,
actual, virtual and imaginary, has become crucial to formulating positions
both in relation to changes in communications technologies and in social
and
political relations. Digital visual technologies, it is claimed, have
multiplied the sites of viewing, shifting audiences from positions of
passive receptivity, associated with discourses of modern visual culture,
into a series of modes of interaction. Yet, it is also argued that the
encoding of kinaesthetic responsiveness in such forms of interaction
represents a more thorough penetration of imaginative activities than ever
before



Contributions are thus sought from scholars working in visual studies, in
the history and theory of art, photographic, film, video and/or media
studies that engage with issues of actual, virtual and imaginary modes of
mobility in relation to images, still, moving and interactive, across
modern
and/or postmodern frameworks. We are particularly interested in ways in
which the thinking of mobility in visual culture implicates issues of
boundaries, borders and limits and, given the situation of the University
overlooking Asian from European Istanbul, we invite contributions that
concern that critical form of actual and imaginary mobility, orientalism,
along with neo-orientalist variants and modes of resistant
counter-orientalist practice. Contributions that address dominant, but
also
repressed, residual and/or emergent senses of space are also encouraged.



Further priorities may emerge from a range of topics that include the
following:



Histories and theorizations of mobile spectatorship, e.g. flaneurism, the
*
dérive*, lines of flight

Mass and other forms of mobilization

Figures of immobility in accounts of modern and/or postmodern mass
culture,
e.g. spectacle and passivity

Monocularity, binocularity and complexifications of perspectival space

Forms of surveillance and counter-surveillance

Temporality and movement in film and video

Territoriality, deterritorialization, reterritorialization and the image

Intra-corporeal and endoscopic visualities

Satellite and network visualities

Simulation and mobility

New media, mobility and fantasy

Digital interactivity, kinaesthesia and the image

Mobility and fantasy in gaming

Mobile screen visualities, fantasy and sociability

Histories and theorizations of mobile authorship

Reading mobile corporeality across visual forms

Transgression and mobility

Theorising fantasy, identification and mobility

Distanciation and mobility

Posing, performativity and mobility

Borders, boundaries, limits and mobility



The symposium will seek to formulate useful positions in thinking the
history and futures of visual culture, modes of critical engagement with
the
increasing variety of visual technologies, in particular mobile ones, and
the problematics of actual and imaginary mobility in relation to rhetorics
and actualities of globalization.



The symposium will involve 5 or 6 consecutive sessions of three 25 minute
papers, and 5 concurrent sessions of five 15 minute papers. Currently it
is
envisaged that there will be sessions, of both longer and shorter
presentations, on: still images; moving images; interactive images;
fantasy
and mobility; and borders, boundaries and limits.



Please send proposals of up to 350 words indicating which session your
presentation would be best suited and whether the presentation would be
for
25 or for 15 minutes (or whether it could be either) to
(mobilityandfantasy /at/ gmail.com).



Travel and accommodation assistance is available for contributors of
Turkish
nationality under 35 years of age, up to a maximum of 250 TL [100TL travel
and 150TL accommodation and subsistence] so please also indicate if you
wish
to be considered for financial support.



Contact: Lewis Johnson or Tolga Hepdinçler

Bahçeşehir University

Faculty of Communication

Department of Photography and Video

Cırağan Caddesi, Beşiktaş

34353 Istanbul

Turkey

0090 (0) 212 381 0446 or 0765



Symposium website: mfvc.bahcesehir.edu.tr<(mfvc /at/ bahcesehir.edu.tr)>



P.S. Apologies for misleading re. amount and availability of state agency
funds for non-Turkish nationals. The state agency grant is only for
nationals.


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