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