[ecrea] CFP "The Border Within – Human body in Contemporary Media (2)"

XIII MAGIS – Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School
POSTCINEMA SECTION
Gorizia (Italy), March 20-24, 2015

CALL FOR PAPER:
The Border Within – Human body in Contemporary Media (2)

“Postcinema, videogames and animation” section aims at investigating 
body's contemporary condition in the realm of new media such as 
videogames or internet. It also aims at analysing the body in the realm 
of those old visual media like cinema and television which are 
influenced by the postmedial condition, with specific attention to 
innovations generated by technological shifts. Our main interest lies in 
the increasing attention on the human body as theoretical focus and 
constant reference to authors or frameworks in the past and contemporary 
theories. Our main focus is the constant transformation process the 
concept of human body is going through within the realm of contemporary 
media products. We would like to explore the borders of human body as it 
lies on the verge of opposite conceptual poles – life and death, real 
and false, technology and flesh, organic and not organic, human and 
cyborg, human and animal. Our interest lies: 1) in the investigation of 
medial body as connected to those visual artists interested in the 
body's concept 2) in the central role of the body for video gaming 
culture 3) in the process of embodiment implied by motion controllers 
and sensors such as Move, Kinect or Wiimote as well as in the diverse 
body representations and transformation within different games 4) the 
different ways in which body and its transformations are represented and 
captured in television-series (e.g.: the change faced by the actors in 
the different seasons, chapters, sequels of a movie) 5) the 
transformation of the character’s bodies due to medical treatment, 
techno-scientific process or forms of contagion. We are also interested 
in the link to genres to the “postcinematic or postmedial” condition 
such as the trans-media and interactive documentaries, mockumentaries, 
web-documentaries, web-series or web fictions, sci-fi, new-horror and 
fantasy, as well as all political uses of the (media) body and the 
representations of the body conveyed by social media and media internet 
happenings.

Deadline for paper proposals: November 30, 2014

Proposals should not exceed one page in length

A short CV (10 lines max.) should be sent together with the paper proposal.
Submit proposals to: (gospringschool /at/ gmail.com)

http://www.filmforumfestival.it/

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