[ecrea] CFP: Intermediality Now: Remapping In-Betweenness

*INTERMEDIALITY NOW: REMAPPING IN-BETWEENNESS*

International film and media studies conference organized by the 
Sapientia University

Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 19-20 October 2018.


Connected to our new exploratory research project 
“RethinkingIntermediality in Contemporary Cinema: Changing Forms of 
In-Betweenness” funded by the UEFISCDI, and following up on the topics 
of our previous conferences <http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences>, 
we would like to bring into focus the idea of “in-betweenness” set in a 
wider context of contemporary visual culture, and to re-evaluate its 
relevance regarding the state of the art in researches on intermediality.

Digital media have not only prompted a reassessment of the relationship 
of the “old” and the “new” through their extraordinary capacity for 
absorption and remediation, but have literally flooded our life with 
their ubiquity and sheer excess. The technological convergences of 
devices producing and displaying media, the fusions, expansions, 
relocations taking place have effectively challenged our perception of 
media differences. If the idea of intermediality is based on the 
assumption of a productive interaction of media, then there should be no 
more pressing issue regarding intermediality studies today than 
fine-tuning its core concept of in-betweenness to the phenomena of the 
so called post-media age, in the spirit of Raymond Bellour’s concept of 
/l’entre-images/ (i.e. /images-in-between///inter-images/), in which 
novel forms are continuously “hollowed out from within surrounded by the 
new forces that irrigate it” (2012: 21). On the other hand, however, as 
recent theoretical approaches imply by viewing media products embedded 
in their palpable, real-life environment (i.e. in the /dispositifs/ we 
experience them, in their phenomenology that links them to our bodies, 
or in their concrete, historical and socio-political context), the 
relevance of intermediality is not limited to what happens /to/ media, 
but it extends, even more importantly, to what happens /through/ the 
in-betweenness of media and what is the agency of in-betweenness in our 
contemporary multimedia environment. Besides the analysis of new 
configurations, we should also examine what is inscribed and 
communicated through various intermedia relations and what new types of 
passages are established in-between art and life, in-between the 
emotional, spiritual and the material, as well as the imaginary and the 
real, and so on.

We invite proposals to unravel the complex new relationships that define 
our contemporary visual culture, and to map new, relevant areas of 
in-betweenness that may enrich our knowledge of intermediality today.

*We suggest the following tracks along which individual topics 
(theoretical presentations or case studies) may be proposed:*

·Classical cinema vs. expanded cinema in the digital age, cinema and 
other forms of moving images

·The cinematic, the photographic, the theatrical, the painterly as 
transversal concepts (applicable “outside” their media boundaries) in 
the aesthetic of contemporary art and media

·/L-entre images/(inter-images) today: new passages between the visual 
arts in the digital age

·In-between the real and the intermedial, the immediate and the 
hypermediated, bodies and media, the sensual and the abstract

·Intermedial strategies in the aesthetic or the curating practices of 
contemporary art and media, the politics of intermediality, the 
“messages” of in-betweenness

·New technologies and experiences of in-betweenness: e.g. 3D, VR cinema, 
computer games

·“In-betweenness” in between theories: concepts of liminality 
articulated/applied through theories of intermediality, media 
convergence, transmediality, philosophy, media archaeology and ecology, 
intersections of media and cultural studies etc.


    *Confirmed keynote speakers:*

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MARTINE BEUGNET, Professor in Visual Studies at the Paris Diderot 
University. Her current research interests include: cinema and video art 
(phenomenology, aesthetics, reception), forms and practices of the 
moving image in the era of the digital, and the relationship between the 
arts. She is the author of /Claire Denis/ (2004); /Proust at the 
Movies/ (with Marion Schmid, 2005); /Cinema and Sensation:/ /French Film 
and the Art of Transgression/ (2007).  Her latest books are on the 
aesthetic of the blur in cinema: /Indefinite Visions: Cinema and the 
Attractions of Uncertainty/ (with A. Cameron and A. Fetveit, 2017) and 
/L’attrait du flou/ (/The Attraction of the Blur/, 2017).

THOMAS ELSAESSER, Professor Emeritus of the University of Amsterdam and 
Visiting Professor at Columbia University. Besides publishing over 200 
essays in journals and collections, he has authored, edited and 
co-edited some 20 volumes on film history, film theory, media 
archaeology and new media.Among his recent books as author are: (with 
Malte Hagener) /Film Theory – An Introduction through the Senses/ (2010) 
and /Film History as Media Archaeology/ (2016). He is currently 
completing a book on /European Cinema and Continental Thought: Film as 
Thought Experiment/ (2018).He is also writer-director of the documentary 
film, /The Sun Island/ (2017) which premiered at the Kassel Documentary 
Festival in November 2017. The conference will also include a screening 
of this film.


    *Submission of proposals*

We invite proposals both for individual papers and pre-constituted 
panels. Panels may consist of 3 or 4 speakers.

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**Deadline for the submission of proposals: June 30, 2018.*


Please fill in one of the SUBMISSION FORMS below**(or access them on our 
website: 
_/http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/intermediality-now-remapping-in-betweenness/_)

*INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL* <https://goo.gl/forms/uVWHAriu7D3Z5GTH2>**

*PANEL PROPOSAL* <https://goo.gl/forms/Vwot36JxaVn0vdDv2>


For additional information you can contact the organizers directly at 
this e-mail address:

(2018.inbetweenness /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:%(202015.real.intermedial /at/ gmail.com)>**

The official language of the conference is English.

The time for presentations is limited to maximum 20 minutes, followed by 
a 10-minute debate.

Conference fee (which includes participation, conference buffet and 
banquet): 120 EUR, special fee for participants from 
post-communist/communist countries: 70 EUR. The fee is to be paid on 
arrival at the conference registration desk.

A selection of papers based on the conference presentations will be 
published in our department's international, peer reviewed journal 
(/A/cta Universitatis Sapientiae. Film & Media Studies// 
<http://www.acta.sapientia.ro/acta-film/film-main.htm>) indexed in 
several international databases.

For more information and updates see the official 
website:/http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/intermediality-now-remapping-in-betweenness//./



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