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[ecrea] Call for Papers: Loops and Splices Conference, 1 August 2014

Thu May 15 09:20:05 GMT 2014




Research Conference

Loops and Splices: Changing Media Technologies

1 August 2014

Victoria University of Wellington Kelburn Campus



Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London)



The Film and Media Studies Programmes and Visual Culture Group at Victoria University of Wellington and the Media Studies Programme at Massey University invite submissions for the Loops and Splices conference.



Film and Media technologies are often assumed to operate within teleological frameworks whereby progress, growth and efficiency are defining factors. In order to interrogate these assumptions, this conference will take into account a recent turn in media scholarship towards uncovering the overlooked and under-examined media technologies that contribute to historical and contemporary practice. This conference will explore how different media technologies have functioned in relation to historical and social practices, aesthetic traditions and specific cultural moments.



Topics to consider may include but are not limited to:

    * The long history of film and media/media archaeologies
    * Under-examined and latent histories of media technologies
* Film and media’s under-examined intersections with other technologies of visual culture
    * Technologies of production, distribution and exhibition.
* Circular histories, counter-teleologies of contemporary and historical media
    * Film and media aesthetics and their relationship to technology
    * Technology and the aesthetics of ephemeral or fugitive forms
    * Tactile media technologies and phenomenological effects
    * Technology and its representational histories
    * Relationships between analogue and digital technologies
    * The impacts of changing film and media technologies on labour
    * Experimental and non-commercial media technologies

Organizing Committee: Alex Bevan, Kathleen Kuehn, Michelle Menzies, Radha O’Meara, Miriam Ross, Kirsten Moana Thompson



Paper proposals (250 words + brief bio) should be submitted by 10 June 2014 to (Kathleen.Kuehn /at/ vuw.ac.nz)



If you wish to attend, but not present, please notify the Symposium Organizing Committee at the above mentioned email address. Attendance is free, but registration is requested.



Keynote speaker:

Prof. Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Ian Christie is a historian of culture and media, author and editor of monographs on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam. He is a fellow of the British Academy, Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, Head of London Screen Study Collection and Vice-President of Europa Cinemas. His latest publication is Audiences (2012). See http://www.ianchristie.org/


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