[Commlist] IFTR 2024, Manila - Intermediality Working Group CFP

        The deadline for the submission of abstracts for IFTR 2024
        Manila is now extended till 16 February 2024.

The Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Working Group invites 
proposals for participation from academics, early career researchers, 
postgraduate students and artists for IFTR 2024 in Manila, Philippines:

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*The Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Working Group*

The Intermediality Working Group (WG) examines the interrelationships of 
theatre with other media as well as combinations of different media in 
performance. It looks at theories and conceptualizations of media in 
live performance, historical developments and transformations of media, 
and contemporary manifestations of intermediality in postdigital 
culture. The Intermediality WG is research active. Recent publications 
include /Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance: Precarious 
Intermedial Identities /(Bloomsbury 2021), and a special edition of 
/IJPADM /‘TechNo-fixes? Performances within Ecological Emergencies’ 
(2022)/,/ both edited by WG members and former convenors Liam Jarvis and 
Karen Savage.

*IFTR2024: INTERMEDIALITY CALL FOR PAPERS: *

In early 2023, the Future of Life institute has released an open letter 
calling to Pause Giant AI Experiments. Recognising the ‘profound change 
in the history of life on Earth’ AI represents, the appeal to 
immediately suspend the training of AI systems for at least 6 months, 
asks ‘/Should/ we let machines flood our information channels with 
propaganda and untruth? …/ Should/ we develop nonhuman minds that might 
eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us? /Should/ we 
risk loss of control of our civilization?’ The warning of prospective 
tragedy is a prototypical response when it comes to the digital and 
technological. Yet, more recent global challenges, large scale loss, 
trauma, violence, and emergency turn promethean dare into practical 
necessity replacing hubristic rhetoric with interdependency, capability, 
and power. As Fintan Walsh argues, ‘[i]f, during the pandemic, we humans 
could only confront our losses by confirming our screen dependence, 
perhaps it will only be in moments of digital death, too, that we will 
rediscover what being alive together ever felt like to begin (or end) 
with’ (2021, 407). What are the consequences of AI-anxiety and global 
technophobia for theatre – the artform that still trades on its 
‘(a)liveness’? How is performance now mediated and remediated through 
quotidian digitality? And what is intermediality in an age wherein the 
mechanisms of mediation – such as AI and digital interfaces – are 
ubiquitous? We ask what are the opportunities that theatre affords in 
the AI age; how does theatre stage this crisis and performance resist 
the doom-laden narratives?

In response to the theme of the Manila conference, “Our States of 
Emergency: Theatres and Performances of Tragedy”, and ongoing global 
crises, the aim of the 2024 Intermediality call is to rethink and 
reimagine tragedy as a transitional phase and ontological shift from the 
‘medial’ to the intermedial.We invite proposals for *20 minute 
presentations in any format (papers, performance lectures, practical 
demonstrations, workshops, etc.) *or for a *15 minute position 
statement* from established academics, early career researchers, 
postgraduate students and artists around the globe to join our working 
group. We also welcome practice-based researchers, and 
cross-disciplinary scholars.

Proposals may include but are not limited to any of the following themes:

  * Tragedy and the Digital and/or Inter/medial.
  * Spectacular, digital, virtual, and augmented tragedies
  * Media memory in a digital world
  * Virtual sites of destructions
  * Intermediality, sustainability and states of emergency
  * Ecological emergencies and performance
  * Intermedial and digital performance at times of crisis
  * Transhumanism, the post-digital subject, hubris, and humility
  * Digital degradation and virtual disintegration
  * Intermedial catastrophe/opportunity
  * Intermediality after tragedy
  * Recovery and hope
*Open Call*: We encourage other submissions that address 
intermediality in theatre and performance, including those that do not 
directly refer to the conference theme. For more information, please 
visit IFTR Intermediality in Theatre & Performance WG 
<https://www.iftr.org/working-groups/intermediality-in-theatre-and-performance>_._

*SUBMITTING YOUR ABSTRACT: *

We welcome both existing and new WG members to submit papers on any 
aspect of intermedial theatre and performance, broadly conceived. We are 
keen to hear from academics and practitioner-researchers at all career 
stages and welcome attendees from diverse geographical locations. The WG 
aims to encourage lively and energized debates during the sessions and 
in this spirit, we also invite observers to attend and contribute to our 
discussions. The group is welcoming and inclusive and we will be 
organizing a social event for all of our WG members during the conference.

*Abstracts* between* 200-250 words* are invited for this conference from 
all interested scholars and students of the Performing Arts and related 
disciplines.

*Conference Dates: 15-19 July 2024*

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*Conference Venue: University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila, 
Philippines*

*Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 16 February 2024.*



        All abstracts should be submitted to theCambridge Core website
        <https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/iftr>.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions regarding the WG 
and/or your abstract submission.

*ACCEPTANCE: *

Applicants will be informed of acceptance by 15^th  March 2024.



Co-conveners

Dr Lynne Kendrick: (lynne.kendrick /at/ cssd.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(lynne.kendrick /at/ cssd.ac.uk)>

Dr Christina Papagiannouli: (christina.papagiannouli /at/ southwales.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(christina.papagiannouli /at/ southwales.ac.uk)>

Dr Yaron Shyldkrot: (y.shyldkrot /at/ leeds.ac.uk) <mailto:(y.shyldkrot /at/ leeds.ac.uk)>



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