[ecrea] CFP: Rendering (the) Visible III: liquidity

    *Call For Papers*


      *Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity*


      *Atlanta, February 8-10, 2018*


        *Deadline: October 20, 2017*

Since the early 2000s, the idea of “liquidity” has been mobilized in 
discourses ranging from social theory to aesthetics, from informatics to 
architecture, to describe a new relationship with the networked 
environments of life within global capital. More specifically, within 
the study of moving image culture, we have seen an increasing turn 
toward affective relations, plasticity, resonances and flows, whereby 
images and sounds—no longer grounded in an analogical relation to the 
real—are seen variously as malleable, untethered, “viral,” or fluid.

The graduate program in Moving Image Studies at Georgia State University 
has, over the past several years, been exploring some of the 
implications of these ideas, specifically in relation to race, via our 
research group “liquid blackness <http://liquidblackness.com/>.” Now, 
however, we wish to explore the ways in which the concept of liquidity 
might begin to chart new ways to understand the image’s relation to 
space, sensoriality, and digitality, as well as to develop an aesthetic 
sensibility attuned to the political ontology of motion, form, matter, 
and noise.

We invite papers that explore the concept of liquidity across a wide 
range of moving image media, informed by a wide range of theoretical 
approaches and engaging with topic including but not limited to:

* liquidity in relation to the historical coiling of race and 
photographic technologies
* liquidity and “post-cinematic affect”
* the aesthetics of liquidity
* liquidity and the cultural work of form
* liquidity and sound studies
* liquidity, ecocinema, and environmental humanities
* liquidity, new materialism, and posthumanism
* suspension, immersion, transduction, and diffraction as critical 
strategies in media scholarship and media art practice
* liquidity and feminist, queer, and trans theories
* the “object” of film studies
* liquidity of private and public spheres
* liquidity of labor
* plasticity, plasmaticity, and the evolution of the cinematic and 
videographic image since 1975

The Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity conference encourages 
interdisciplinarity and experimentation in the study of visuality and 
moving image media. We are also open to projects that play at the 
intersection of theory and practice.

**Submit paper proposals* 
<http://fmt.gsu.edu/rendering-visible-iii-liquidity-submission-form/>**(300–500 
words), including 3-5 bibliographical sources and a brief biography by 
20 October 2017.*

**

Please direct queries to (movingimagestudies /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(movingimagestudies /at/ gmail.com)>or contact conference organizers 
Angelo Restivo, Alessandra Raengo, Ethan Tussey, or Jennifer Barker.

Conference opens Thursday evening with a screening of 3-D video work by 
Marc Downie and Paul Kaiser (OpenEndedGroup 
<http://openendedgroup.com/>). Friday evening features a dance 
performance by Storyboard P 
<http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/06/the-impossible-body>, 
followed by a discussion with the dancer and Dr. Thomas DeFrantz (Dance; 
Theatre; and African American Studies, Duke University) in the Five 
Points MARTA station downtown. Saturday evening, Dr. Grant Farred 
(Africana Studies Research Center, Cornell University) presents the 
keynote lecture, followed by a closing reception.

The dance performance Friday is presented in conjunction with the 
Atlanta Mobile Music 
<https://atlmediaindustries.wordpress.com/atlantas-mobile-music/> 
project. Performers will dance to the music of Atlanta’s commute, 
accompanied by a Spotify soundtrack of commuters’ music preferences, 
collected from actual MARTA riders in the months leading up to the 
event. This community outreach effort encourages commuters to engage 
with their fellow citizens through their shared love of music. Mobile 
devices can insulate us from each other by offering an escape to a 
private virtual world, but we hope that this playlist and performance 
will figuratively pop the “audio bubbles” that separate people from 
their fellow commuters.

Rendering (the) Visible III: Liquidity 2018 Conference is made possible 
through the Center for Collaborative and International Arts (CENCIA), 
the School of Film, Media & Theatre, and the Creative Media Industries 
Institute (CMII).


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