[ecrea] CFP: Mediating Cityscapes

MEDIATING CITYSCAPES

Den Haag/The Hague

27-28 September, 2013

If urban space has historically been defined by the relation between 
static structures and mobile subjects, this dichotomy is fast giving way 
to hybrid spatialities characterized by dynamic flows which not only 
dissolve the fixity of traditional modes of spatial enclosure, but 
problematize the unified presence of the subject traversing their contours.

                                                                        
Scott McGuire, /The Media City/ (2008)

As Scott McGuire suggests, the contemporary city is marked by a number 
of tensions found between fixity and flow and the resulting hybrid 
spatialities which are shaped by a multifarious range of mediations.  
Historically, certain of these mediations, such as film, photography, 
music, art, and more recently, mobile and locative media, have helped 
shape the diverse strata which compose both the material and immaterial 
dimensions of the contemporary city.  In form, and as practices and 
discourses, they have also afforded opportunities to critically engage 
with and creatively intervene in the city.  As part of the annual arts 
festival Two Days Art, held in Den Haag, this interdisciplinary 
symposium will focus on creative and artistic responses to the mediated 
cityscape.  We encourage papers and submissions from academics, artists 
and practitioners that consider the multiple ways in which various media 
(film, music, photographic, digital, etc.), creative practices, and 
technologies put in to play a diverse array of encounters and interfaces 
that engage with, interrupt, reconstitute, or resist the hybrid 
spatialities which define the contemporary cityscape.

Abstracts of no longer than 250 words can be sent to: 
(geoff.stahl /at/ vuw.ac.nz) <mailto:(geoff.stahl /at/ vuw.ac.nz)>

Closing Date: Friday, June 14^th  2013.

Participants will be notified by July 1st, 2013.

Cheers,
Geoff Stahl
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Dr. Geoff Stahl
Senior Lecturer, Media Studies
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Victoria University of Wellington
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