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[ecrea] CfP: 4th NECS Graduate Workshop "Identities in Motion"

Sat Jan 21 23:11:40 GMT 2012




4th NECS Graduate Workshop (Lisbon, 19th-20th June 2012)

Identities in Motion – New Visual Media Strategies
Hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra
Organised by the NECS Graduate Workshop Committee

The contemporary mediascape encompasses new visual media strategies which play a central role and give birth to a number of innovative identities in motion. The workshop aims precisely to explore these strategies, focusing on their specificity, their developments and intersections.
New visual media strategies include, but are not limited to:
- Representation strategies
Alternative ways of introflection/extroflection of memory, identity, Self (in films, FB, Youtube, etc.).
- Aesthetic strategies and format issues
Experimental cinema, new audiovisual or traditional a/v production for an innovative use or
distribution; intersections across the visual arts.
- Pragmatic strategies
Sociocultural everyday practices and processes, including new patterns of production or use/consumption of visual media (home movies inheritance and new forms of auto-production; grassroots practices; implementation of visual documentation with cell phone).
- Political strategies
Interactive visual media influence democratic processes of communication and sharing medial governance policies, surveillance and video-control. To what extent are the so called ‘participatory’ forms of media productions really democratic (interactive films, collective authorship, etc.)?
- Technological strategies
Questions linked to dispositives: birth of new devices, alternative use of old devices and platforms. Objects of exploration and analysis should be visual media and screen media which interpret the sense of motion of identities according to the afore-mentioned strategies. Consequently, the question is: how identities are being shaped throughout digitality and virtuality.

Doctoral candidates and junior researchers from cinema, visual and media studies, whether previously attached to NECS or new to the network, are invited to submit proposals for
contributions. The conference language is English.

Submissions deadline: February 29, 2012
Please address all inquiries to: (graduates /at/ necs.org) <mailto:(graduates /at/ necs.org)>

NECS Graduate Workshop Committee
Miriam De Rosa (Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Milan), Jan Oehlman (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Mag. Alena Strohmaier (Universität Wien), with the local support of Susana Viegas

>>> The full CfP is available at: www.necs-initiative.org/ <http://www.necs-initiative.org/> <<<
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