[ecrea] Journeys Across Media 2016 PG conference

Journeys Across Media
14 April 2016
Department of Film, Theatre & Television
University of Reading
Call for Papers

Media and Performance Across Platforms

The JAM 2016 interdisciplinary postgraduate conference will take place 
on 14 April in conjunction with the annual BAFTSS (the British 
Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) conference at the 
University of Reading on 14-16 April. The conference theme is the 
movement of storytelling, performance and images across diverse 
platforms, in traditional media forms such as adaptations from stage to 
screen, and digital media forms, such as multiplatform series. As art 
forms migrate and mutate across platforms, how do methods of critical 
analysis keep pace with them? How might the concept of a ‘medium’ change 
in response to the new fluidity of forms? How do the qualities of 
liveness and presence interact with the digital and the virtual? What 
modes of understanding are appropriate to our experiences of performance 
and storytelling on multi-dimensional and multi-sensory platforms?

Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

•	Trans-media across the nations
•	Multi-sensory systems of human and technological analysis
•	Adaptation and remediation
•	Trans-media approaches to immersive and interactive performances
•	Proprioception and kinaesthetic narratives
•	Trans-identity and universal identities (e.g.: gender, nationality, 
heritage, culture)
•	Performance as sociocultural debate
We welcome both traditional paper presentations and practice-as-research 
performances and films. Presentations and live performances must adhere 
to a 15 minute time limit. To submit your proposal by email, please 
address your Word Document file to the JAM committee at 
(jam /at/ pgr.reading.ac.uk).

Abstracts for a 15 minute paper or live performance piece should be no 
more than 500 words and accompanied by a short biographical note. 
Performance proposals should detail the title of your piece, a short 
biography and a 300-word description of your performance, including 
space and technical requirements. Performance proposals should also 
include, where possible, a video recording of the performance proposed 
or video examples of your previous work.

The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2016. All submissions will be 
reviewed and decisions will be communicated by 15 February 2016.

We aim to keep fees as low as possible: concessions will be available 
for PGR, non-salaried and retired conference attendees. The confirmed 
conference fee for attendees (not including dinner or accommodation) 
will not be announced until attendance is finalised.

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