[Commlist] Call for Abstracts - Proxies, Stand-ins, and Warm-ups, a virtual symposium (April 27, 2022)

*Call for Abstracts - /Proxies, Stand-ins, and Warm-ups, a virtual 
symposium /(April 27, 2022)*
Co-hosted by Dylan Mulvin (London School of Economics) and Annette Hill 
(Lund University)
*We invite applications for a (virtual) symposium on the proxy, the 
stand-in, and the warm-up to be co-hosted by the London School of 
Economics and Lund University. We aim to gather an eclectic and 
wide-ranging cohort of people exploring the emergent intersection of 
technology, background work, and hidden performances within media and 
cultural industries  – the infrastructural and hidden labour of our 
daily lives. We offer this invitation for those who want 
to further interrogate the cultural dynamics of proxies. The logics of 
the stand-in draw attention to how certain people, and attendant 
material objects and infrastructures, are made to not matter and 
disappear from view.

Our world is suffused with proxies, and the background work of the 
people who stand in for others, from models who pose for test images to 
calibrate image technologies, stand-ins for theatre and live events, 
warm-up acts who prepare an audience for an entertainment show, 
to voice-over actors, foley artists, and stunt doubles. The art of 
performing as a stand-in reaches far beyond the fixed realms of media 
and cultural industries and deep into civil society, including the 
medical establishment and legal institutions where we might find medical 
actors who offer their bodies up to trainee physicians and mock juries 
who come to stand-in for the ordinary citizens. This symposium will dig 
deeper into these stand-in dynamics while mapping an already existing 
and interdisciplinary investment in the surrogate logic, 
absent presence,  and politics of proxiness.
*
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*Send abstracts to:*
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Dylan Mulvin*(d.mulvin /at/ lse.ac.uk) <mailto:(d.mulvin /at/ lse.ac.uk)> *& Annette 
Hill*(annette.hill /at/ kom.lu.se) <mailto:(annette.hill /at/ kom.lu.se)>*
*Submission deadline: *March 4, 2022 (notifications sent out by March 28)
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Submission details: *a (maximum) 400-word abstract and a 200-word biography


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