[ecrea] Journeys Across Media Conference

Journeys Across Media
The Body and The Digital
Friday 19th April 2013, University of Reading
2013 will mark the 11th anniversary of the annual Journeys Across Media 
(JAM) Conference for postgraduate students, organised by postgraduates 
working in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the 
University of Reading. JAM 2013 seeks to focus on and foster current 
research relating to the Body and the Digital, as today they are 
interactive and interdependent facets in the media of film, theatre and 
television; and more widely, in the areas of performance and art. It is 
a relationship which continues to develop and redefine cinematic, 
televisual and theatrical practices.
French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty once stated: “The body is 
our general medium for having a world.” Today, the world of live and 
screened performance are perceived and received differently, due to the 
body’s relationship with the digital. Approaches and practices of 
phenomenology, embodiment, the haptic and the experiential are being 
re-examined as they continue to encounter digital culture in new ways. 
Representations and experiences of embodiment are often integral 
dynamics of theatre, television, film and television, and are 
preoccupations that can be explored through diverse media or digital 
influences.
This is a call for postgraduates engaging in contemporary discourses and 
practices relating to the Body and the Digital, to submit papers or 
practice-based research for the JAM 2013 Conference. Topics may include, 
but are not restricted to:

-Interactivity between Digital languages and the Body
-Sonic Representations of the Body in Digital Performance
-The Digitized Body in Performance
-The Role of the Body in Digital Games and Virtual Performance
-Post-Colonial Bodies in the Contemporary Moment
-Preparing the Body for Performance
-Notions of Embodiment (i.e. Violent, Disabled, Explicit)
-Traditions of Corporeally focused Film, Theatre and Television
-Embodied Spectatorship or Audiences, and Physicality
-Phenomenology of the Lived, Performed and Screened Body
-The Haunted Body
-Politics of the Body
-Unconventional and Other Bodies
The body, its presence, perceptions and experience, are becoming 
increasingly underpinned and influenced by the digital age. JAM 2013 
will endeavour to open a dialogue about the relationship between the 
body and digital in contemporary scholarship and practice, posing many 
questions including: How does the body encounter digital media and how 
do digital media frames position the body – both in mainstream 
iterations, social media contexts and in art/installation/performance 
contexts? Furthermore, it will also be worth considering how digital 
technology has affected the way that humans approach unfamiliar body 
movement traditions, beyond regional and national borders?
JAM 2013 will provide a discussion forum for current and developing 
research in film, theatre, television and new media. Previous delegates 
have welcomed this opportunity to gain experience of presenting their 
work at different stages of their development, while having the 
opportunity to meet and form contacts with fellow postgraduate students. 
Furthermore, participants at JAM 2013 have the possibility of being 
published in the Journal of Media Practice.

Non-Presenting delegates are also very welcome to attend this conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: 1st February 2013
Please send a 250-word abstract for a fifteen minute paper and a 50-word 
biographical note to Johnmichael Rossi, Gary Cassidy, Edina Husanovic, 
Shelly Quirk, Matthew McFrederick (atjam2013 /at/ pgr.reading.ac.uk) .
CALL FOR PRACTICE-BASED WORK deadline: 1st February 2013

Continuing from the success of last year's JAM 2012 Conference: Time 
Tells, which experimented with conference structure to include live 
performances, film screenings and installations taking place throughout 
the day, we invite artists working in various media to propose 
presentations of their work, relevant to the conference theme. Please 
send a 250-word outline describing the piece you are proposing to 
present, as well as duration and any specific technical/space 
requirements, and a 50-word biographical note. Relevant images and links 
to your work would also be helpful. As outlined above please e-mail the 
Conference organisers at (jam2013 /at/ pgr.reading.ac.uk).

We would appreciate the distribution of this call for papers and wider 
promotion of this conference through your networks. Journeys Across 
Media is supported by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at 
Reading and the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments.




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