[ecrea] Cfp - international conference film and media aesthetics

*Contemporary Film and Media Aesthetics:*

*Culture, Nature, and Technology in the 21st Century*

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XXII International Conference of Film Studies

*Roma Tre University – Department of Philosophy, Media, and Performing Arts*

*Rome, November 24th–25th, 2016*

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*EXTENDED DEADLINE: September 10th, 2016*

/Confirmed keynote speakers:/Stella Bruzzi (University of Warwick), 
Torben Grodal (University of Copenhagen), Steven Shaviro (Wayne State 
University)

Audiovisual media are the basis for most of our experiences today. In a 
postdigital and postmedia age, they are a crucial element constituting 
the environment in which we are immersed, act, and sense ourselves and 
others. Furthermore, it is through media that we expand our sensorial 
abilities and redefine our own identity.

According to widespread opinion, contemporary audiovisual culture 
implies a deep reconfiguration of experience, and a resulting rethinking 
of the 20th century paradigms. Cinema, television, photography, 
videogames, media art, and the web – together with new interactive and 
immersive technologies – constantly permeate artistic and everyday 
spaces. They stimulate and mobilize our affective and sensorial spheres, 
and involve our consciousness on many different levels. Research about 
media experience is hence increasingly located at the crossroads of 
biology, technology, and culture.

Which are the main approaches deriving from the transformations in the 
contemporary audiovisual scenario? Film and media aesthetics has 
recently proposed new models to address the interactions of screens, 
minds, and bodies. The growth of new interdisciplinary research areas 
demonstrates a new sensibility, thus restoring the idea of aesthetics as 
a theory of sensory experience – an experience that is investigated from 
various different perspectives, from naturalism to culturalism, and 
inspired by both continental and analytic frameworks. However, the 
emergence of new media arts and forms induces the consideration of 
aesthetics as a philosophy of art, especially with respect to the many 
creative uses of new technologies. These two aspects are not mutually 
exclusive; rather, an exploration of their interactions can enrich both 
of them.

The 22nd International Conference of Film Studies addresses contemporary 
trends in media and film aesthetics. We invite scholars and researchers 
from any involved discipline to propose an abstract addressing one the 
following issues − but not limited to them. Each issue can be approached 
from a purely theoretical perspective, or through specific case studies.

• The interactions between mind and screen, and their impact on the 
sensorial and affective experience of the viewer.

• Medium-body relations, including the idea of the body as medium.

• The impact of film and media experience on agency, conscience, 
subjectivity, and identity.

• The social impact of media emotions, with particular reference to 
trauma studies.

• Film and media aesthetics and politics: the aesthetic sensorium.

• Applicative implications of theoretical models, with particular 
reference to gaming, education, and medicine.

• Analytic and continental aesthetics: contrast and compare.

• Interdisciplinary fields of research: from affect theory to sensory 
studies, from cognitive media theory to neuroaesthetics, and beyond.

• Beyond ocularcentrism: embodiment, hapticity, and synesthesia.

• Environment and visuality: rethinking the concepts of medium and 
visual regime.

• Classical film aesthetics and its development in the 21st century.

• Film aesthetic and ontology: parallels and differences.

• 19th and 20th centuries’ visual culture in light of the contemporary 
media landscape.

• Art in the postmedia age, and the new creative forms.

Contributors can send their abstract (300-500 words, 3-5 keywords, 3-5 
bibliographic references) to (_roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it). 
<mailto:(roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it)>_Please include a brief biography of 
the author(s), together with the main contacts.

The abstract must be received by September 10th, 2016. All notifications 
of acceptance will be sent no later than September 15th, 2016.

Presentations will last 20 minutes. The conference’s languages are 
English and Italian.

/Organizers:/ Enrico Carocci, Ivelise Perniola

(Roma Tre University – Department of Philosophy, Media, and Performing Arts)

/Fee (speakers):/ 40.00 EUR



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XXII International Conference of Film Studies

November 24-25, 2016, Roma Tre University

Department of Philosophy, Media and Performing Arts

(roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it) 
<http://(roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it)><mailto:(roma3conference /at/ uniroma3.it)>

http://roma3conference.wix.com/filmmediaaesthetics

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