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

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

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