[Commlist] CfP - Screen Based Technologies and Representation

THE SCREEN AS SURFACE, SITE AND SPACE

Dates: 01-03 December 2022
Abstracts: 01 July 2022 (Round 1)     -      05 October 2022 (Round 2)

Virtual - National University of Singapore

https://amps-research.com/visioning-nus/


CALL:

Screen-based devices have become an inexorable part of our everyday 
lives. They include (but are not limited to) apparatuses for cinematic 
entertainment, imaging, surveillance, social networking, creative 
expression, documentation, 3D modelling, real-time collaborations, and 
hosting immersive environments. They exist in many forms and sizes, from 
touchscreens on compact smart devices to building facades and 
infrastructure that serve as the canvas for massive media architecture 
projections in urban environments. Electronic visual displays 
proliferate in most industries: art and design, healthcare, IT, research 
and development. At the height of the COVID-19 global pandemic, screens 
acquired greater relevance, as the ‘window’ to online interactions, 
offering solace and immediacy remotely across geographical distances and 
time zones.

With the screen serving as the subject of discourse, we probe into its 
earliest developments informed by proto-cinematic forms of 
entertainment. One can trace the mechanisation of vision in the late 
nineteenth century that gave rise to a cinema of attractions and new 
technologies of seeing, in photography, actualité films, and opaque 
projections. Merging cinematic immersion with the haptic virtues of the 
screen, multi-screen artworks and interactive installations imbue new 
media with an environmental dimension, privileging a more mobile and 
embodied form of spectatorship. Meanwhile, the digital age introduced an 
unprecedented range of virtualities, expanding the lexicon of extended 
realities to encompass augmented reality, mixed reality and virtual 
worlds – with varying degrees of interactivity but all of which are 
mediated through LCD screens and head-mounted displays.

What is evident when exploring these optical histories is the primacy of 
space for the structuring of experience, and how spatial ontology is 
continuously redefined by milestones in screen technology development. 
By reflecting on historical precedents, how might this further enrich 
our understanding of the materiality of screen as media?



FORMAT HIGHLIGHT:

Pre-recorded presentations and short films welcome.

Films and videos to be hosted on the AMPS Academic YouTube Channel

Book publications with Intellect Books.

Journal Special Issue with UCL Press.


https://amps-research.com/visioning-nus/

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