[Commlist] CfP - panel 'Immersion. Remediation. Revolution. Digital (&) Performance - 17th congress of the German Semiotic Association (Conference)

Conference

Technical University (RPTU)
Landau, Germany

Date: 23/09/0024 - 27/09/2024
Call for papers ending on: 29/11/2023

To achieve its goals, the German Semiotic Association organizes conferences,
colloquia,workshops, courses, lecture series on core areas of its research
fields. Moreover, every three years the association organizes an
international congress. Within the 17th international congress
„Signs.Cultures.Digitality“ (Landau, 24.–28. September 2024), the
section Theatre, Dance & Circus has organized a panel on the topic
“Immersion. Remediation. Revolution – Digital (&) Performance” and
invites for paper proposals.

Apps, digital videos, digital projections, animated sets and characters,
virtual reality, augmented reality, digital robotics, online writing and
real-time audience feedback, interactive content creation, motion capturing,
motion-triggering, web and videoconferencing, streaming, Web3 based funding
programs – those are only a few examples of a large range of
digital technologies used in multiple ways in the context of the
performative arts. Thereby, the inclusion of digital technologies does not
only allow a critical debate on its influence and impact on society through
theatre, dance, and circus, but also the questioning, reformatting,
and remediation of the performing arts themselves.

This panel aims to explore the critical potential of digital application in
present-day artistic performance through the lens of semiotics. In line of
the section’s fundamental premise, the focus is thereby on the
interweaving of semiotics and performativity.

Digital Dramaturgy: How to describe the co-presence of various (digital)
entities? How do the different sign systems relate to each other? Howdo
human and non-human performers interact? How can we redefine the concept of
liveness? What happens when the edges of character blur and shift between
multiple bodies and screens? What happens when the costume or body becomes a
surface for projection? How is scenography altered and made plastic by
digital technology? What are the prospects of digital dramaturgy? How to
describe immersive experience through the lens of semiotics? What (research)
questions arise? How must signs be handled under the conditions of the
digital? How do virtuality reality and risk interfere?
Digital Rehearsal: How does the process of communication change during the
creation process due to a multitude of digital tools? In what way does the
digital influence the mobility of artists? How does digital modeling
(especially in costume and stage design) transform the creation process?
What influence does the use of digital technologies have on the question of
authorship? How do digital technologies influence the training process of
high-level acrobats?

Digital Communities: How can concepts of community, telepresence, 
cyber-place
and utopia be (re)discussed and examined? How does the digital create an
interplay between roles, between performers and audiences? What new
possibilities of communication and interaction with the public arise? How do
these new possibilities influence the creation of meaning and the semiotic
structure of a performance? In what way does the digital provoke new
(global) networks and communities? What kind of digital literacy is
necessary on the side of the public?

Digital Displays: In what way does the digital revolution create the urgeto
find new means of display and funding? Though which (semiotic) means can we
discuss processes of democratization and enhanced accessibility in mediated
performances and digital based art funding? How to analyze mediated
performances?

Against the Digital: In what way are the performative arts presenting a
counter draft to digital worlds? How do immersive (non-digital) performances
take up, refer to or imitate digital performances?

We invite proposals for research talks and also make explicit invitationsfor
presentations in a diverse range of formats, from artists and practitioners
who address questions on the Digital (&) Performance in their work,
practice, and/or research-creation.

The congress will be held between 24. and 28. September 2024 at the 
Technical
University (RPTU) in Landau.

Please send your proposals for papers in German or English (20 minutes) 
and a
short academic CV by email to (Franziska.Trapp /at/ ulb.be) no later than 30.
November 2023. The document should include: Title, name of the author,
summary of the topic (max. 300 words), affiliation, email address,
short-bio, list of publications (max 5).

Talks should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Selected contributions will
likely be published.

The panel language is English. Please note that other panels might be
presented in German only.


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