[Commlist] Live Cinema IV - CFP

Colleagues may be interested in the CFP for the below hybrid event - the 
deadline has been extended until 5th August

Building on the successes of the*Live Cinema Conference*held at King’s 
College London in 2016, the*Live Cinema Summit*at Sheffield Doc/Fest 
2018*,***and our online event*Live Cinema III: The ReOpening***in 
September 2020, we are convening:*Live Xinema*a new festival of research 
and innovation exploring the role of hybridity and liveness in the 
future of cinema.The Xinemain this year’s title reflects the hybrid 
nature of the event (across platforms) and expresses the sense of a 
crossroads, of converging and diverging paths of development and innovation.


We are considering three broad areas of enquiry:

  * The first is the theme of ‘found and lost audiences’: during the
    Global Covid-19 pandemic, many artists, performers and venues turned
    to online presentation as a necessity to continue their work, and
    consequently while local audiences often shrunk, global audiences,
    even for local performances, expanded greatly.
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    The second is new definitions of liveness and presence:this same
    period saw the intensification of practices of collective or
    simultaneous viewing or experiencing films or other
    performances.Since the reopening and the end of social distancing
    measures we have seen a return to and an exponential growth in live
    immersive experiences.

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    The third is the adoption of new technologies of participation:
    spanning the use of mobile devices in auditoria to the full-blown
    immersion in virtual environments.What novel aesthetics,
    experiences, practices have emerged, how are these shaping audience
    expectations and discourses of the future of live and screen-based
    entertainment?

As the world returns to a new normal, what lessons are there to learn? 
From increasing access physically, socially and financially, to forcing 
engagement with new technologies, the response to the pandemic shifted 
working practices, the question we are left with is whether they will 
simply shift back, or readjust once more to a new model of hybridity 
that preserves and enhances the best of both worlds.

To reflect on these issues,*Live**Xinema 2022*will take place in hybrid 
form, as a physical event at*Broadway Cinema Nottingham,***and in a new 
3D virtual events platform called bubbles.*Live Xinema 2022*will address 
artistic and technological advances in the field of live cinema, and 
film screenings augmented through live or immersive elements, including 
site-specific locations, technological intervention and digital 
participation.

The festival will take place over three days from the 21^st to 23^rd 
September and will feature cutting edge academic research, master 
classes, workshops, a programme of screenings, panels, Q & A sessions 
and world premieres of exclusive live events.

We are currently inviting new research contributions for the*academic 
programme*, these may take any presentation format; traditional academic 
papers, workshops, pre-constituted panels, practice-based contributions, 
technical demonstrations and alternative formats are very welcome.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.We particularly 
welcome interdisciplinary enquiries which embrace methodological 
innovation. Areas of significant contribution will be focussed on 
instances where the live and digital converge and/or diverge in the 
formation of new screen experiences.

In all cases,potential contributors should submit a 200-word abstract 
and a short 100 biography to (livexinema22 /at/ gmail.com) by 5th August 
2022.Decisions will be sent out on 8^th August, 2022.

/Live Xinema IV/is a collaboration between Live Cinema UK, Live Cinema 
Network, King’s College London and the Department of Cultural, Media and 
Visual Studies and the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of 
Nottingham.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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