[ecrea] Call for Papers - Post-cinema – VR and AR: a Postcinematic Modernity II

DEADLINE EXTENSION!

Call for Papers - Post-cinema – VR and AR: a Postcinematic Modernity II

Film Forum -  XVI Magis International Film Studies Spring School

Gorizia, Università degli studi di Udine-Italy

March 3rd-7th 2018

Deadline extended to November 25th, 2017

Address questions and proposals to: (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com 
<http://gmail.com>) <mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com 
<http://gmail.com>)>

​​Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), as well as 
establishing new identities and expanding the perceptions of existing 
users and the technologies they use, also represent two cardinal points 
in the (re)definition of participative and political practices in 
current media landscape. In this sense the Postcinema section would like 
to explore the “community/knowledge/power” relationship and the 
“community/history/truth” relationship in the production and diffusion 
of certain “media products”, in particular the VR and AR ones. The 2018 
Post Cinema section of the Magis Spring School  takes into 
considerations proposals in the following fields:

– Literacy and socio-economic accessibility linked to VR and AR in the 
new media (eg, the difficult access to the interfaces of VR gaming or 
the rapport with the casual gaming)

– The creation of social communities linked to the collective use of 
products specially created for their use through VR and AR devices.

– The user’s bodily, spatial and temporal perception during the 
pragmatic use of VR and AR. For example, the user’s camouflage with 
technology and constant development of dedicated peripherals (war games 
guns, footrests to allow the use of the feet currently not supported, 
introduction of wireless devices for the viewer …) impact;

– The relationship between truth and post-cinematics products (such as 
documentaries or interactive films, video games, and other digital 
products). In these products whose story is being told? Who is telling 
it? For whom? Whose truth? Who circulates in the market of whom?

– The current use and the future potential of VR and AR as tools for 
interpreting and re-reading a social-political setting.

– The use of “politics” in digital video games and interactive products 
(in the form of satire, parody, narration: eg “Trump Simulator”, “Job 
Simulator”). The analysis of the VR development policies adopted by 
different communities or countries, and the investigation of the system 
of power that they configure or contest.

We invite you to send us proposals for papers or panels. The deadline 
for their submission is November, 25th 2017. Proposals should not exceed 
one page in length. Please make sure to attach a short CV (10 lines 
max). A registration fee (€ 150) will be applied. For more information, 
please contact us at (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com 
<http://gmail.com>) <mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com 
<http://gmail.com>)>

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