[Commlist] Live Cinema III: Festival of Research and Innovation 2020 - Call for participation

**Please note a short extension to the original deadline that takes into 
account the current UK industrial action**
*Live Cinema III: Festival of Research and Innovation 2020*

*Nottingham, UK.*

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Taking place across the week commencing 18^th May 2020, this festival 
will feature a programme of live cinema screenings, leading academic 
research, master classes, workshops, an exhibition and demonstration 
track, Q&A sessions, and world premieres of new artistic commissions and 
exclusive live events.

*Live Cinema III*will showcase the creative and critical advances in the 
multi-faceted field of live cinema which encompasses a diverse range of 
forms. These include experimental expanded cinema, the global 
live-casting of cultural and entertainment events and live performance 
during film screenings - indeed any instance of the live augmentation of 
screen spectatorship.This festival marks a unique historical juncture 
and provides an opportunity to draw together and reflect upon the many 
landmark and contemporary moments where the trajectories of liveness and 
emergent screen technologies have intersected.It is 50 years since the 
touchstone publication of Gene Youngblood’s book ‘Expanded Cinema’ which 
revolutionised notions of cinema-making and viewing through its 
pioneering consideration of videos, computers and holography as 
cinematic technologies. Furthermore, it is 30 years since the 
publication of Philip Auslander’s influential ‘Liveness: Performance in 
a Mediatized Culture’. //The combination of the central ideas of these 
two works resonate more than ever when considering the new chimeras of 
contemporary live screen experience. Take for example,Netflix, and their 
recent purchase of a physical cinema venue. This was clearly a 
commercially strategic move, as was their partnership with UK-based 
organisation/Secret Cinema /on an elaborate immersive experience based 
around the series ‘Stranger Things.’ These hybrid forms - which blend 
the live with the mediated, the cinematic with the televisual and with 
the theatrical - are symptomatic of the enduring significance of 
collective viewing experiences, despite the predominance of 
individualised screen consumption perpetuated by the streaming 
revolution.Moreover, these complex moments of convergence where 
commercial, technological and artistic imperatives collide - underscore 
the important need for the ongoing study of live and experiential 
screen-based phenomena.

We are currently seeking contributions for the*two-day academic 
programme *which will commence on Thursday 21^st May. These 
contributions may take any presentation format: traditional academic 
papers, workshops, pre-constituted panels, practice-based contributions, 
technical demonstrations and alternative formats. We welcome proposals 
from a broad range of disciplinary contexts such as arts and humanities, 
computer science, social science, leisure studies, cultural geography, 
organisation and management studies – including contributions that 
consider the impact of Live Cinema on other disciplinary fields and 
approaches. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary enquiries which 
embrace methodological innovation. Areas of significant contribution 
will be focussed on instances where the live and digital coalesce in the 
formation of live screen experiences. These may include, but are not 
limited to, the following themes:

  * Live Cinema and the conceptual relationship to*meta-cinema*,
    *post-cinema*,*expanded cinema*;
  * *Liveness, mediation and presence*: rituals and happenings;
    individualisation versus collectivity;
  * *Geographies of liveness*: local, national and global exhibition and
    distribution infrastructures, livecasting of cultural and
    entertainment experiences, tours, touring, pop-ups, mobile
    exhibition, site-specificity;
  * *Convergence and intermediality*: Intersections between stage,
    screen and television;
  * *Media spectacle*: Event Cinema, Event Films, Media Events,
    ‘Eventization’ and the new screen experience economy, theme parks,
    installations;
  * *Audience participation and interaction*: Hecklevision, ‘barrage
    cinema’, sing-a-longs, cult movie practices, ‘call backs’, Secret
    Cinema, Punchdrunk, audience creativity, fan created content, cos
    play, role play;
  * *Embodied experience:*affect, cognition, haptics, AI and algorithms,
    biofeedback, wearables, gestural interfaces, visual tactile
    integration and proprioceptive devices;
  * *Performance and Performativity*: VJ, live remix, live soundtrack
    scoring, immersive theatre;
  * *New Screen Technologies*: 4DX, 3D, Magic Leap, Motion Capture,
    Immersive Sound, XR, Mobile screens;
  * *Immersion and interactivity*: Second screen, dome screens, digital
    engagements, E-sports, accessible, sensory and inclusive
    technologies and experiences;
  * *Organisations and infrastructures*: festivals, cinemas,
    distributors, new business models, IP, economic considerations,
    policy dimensions and brand engagement, labour markets, models of
    working in the screen experience economy;
  * *Activist and political uses of cinema*: guerrilla screenings,
    interrupted screenings, radical, alternative events, film forums;
  * *Innovations in**experience design*: game hybrids, pervasive gaming,
    Alternate Reality Games (ARGs);
  * *Placemaking and collective experiences*: Film festivals, public
    screens, tourism, leisure industries and ‘destination events;’
  * *Newness, novelty, exclusivity and scarcity*:  experiential
    ephemera, **promotional screenings, materials and paratexts,
    historicization.

Potential contributors should submit a 300 word abstract and a short 100 
biography (toLiveCinemaFestival2020 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(LiveCinemaFestival2020 /at/ gmail.com)> by 6pm on *March* 
*6th* 2020.Decisions will be sent out on week commencing 16^th March, 2020.

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/Live Cinema III: Festival of Research and Innovation/is a collaboration 
between Live Cinema UK, Live Cinema Network, King’s College London and 
University of Nottingham.The LCF2020 academic strand is convened by 
Sarah Atkinson & Helen W. Kennedy. For further information contact 
Professor Kennedy, Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies at 
the University of Nottingham:(Helen.Kennedy /at/ Nottingham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Helen.Kennedy /at/ Nottingham.ac.uk)>


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