[ecrea] Call For Papers: Journeys Across Media 2011

> ourneys Across Media 2011
> Friday 6th May 2011
>
> SPACE IN OUR TIME: EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF 
> SCREEN AND LIVE PERFORMANCE SPACE
>
> Journeys Across Media (JAM) 2011 is the 9th 
> annual international conference for postgraduate 
> students, organized by postgraduates working in 
> the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at 
> the University of Reading. It provides a 
> discussion forum for current and developing 
> research in film, theatre, television and new 
> media. Previous delegates have welcomed the 
> opportunity to gain experience of presenting 
> their work at different stages of development in 
> the active, friendly and supportive research 
> environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the 
> University of Reading. This year JAM will be 
> guest-editing the Autumn issue of Intellectâ??s 
> Journal of Media Practice and in 2012 an 
> associated journal to the conference will be 
> launched, providing further opportunities for 
> new researchers to publish their work and interact with established scholars.
> Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.
>
> The 9th JAM conference seeks to address issues 
> of space in performance, media and wider society 
> and instigate discussions about space across 
> disciplines, practices and fields of research.
> Space in performance and media is constantly 
> shifting. Emerging technologies and new models 
> of physical spaces have radically shaped our 
> conceptions and experiences of performing, the 
> world and our performing within that world. 
> Artistic experimentation in live performance 
> tests and contests space as a 
> neutral/political/liminal/active zone. Through 
> innovative spatial delineations and/or site 
> specific work, contemporary theatre and 
> performance challenge conventions of text and 
> space, performance and institution and 
> performance and audience. Issues of space are 
> increasingly central to performance studies and 
> the experience of live performance. The growing 
> popularity of companies such as Secret Cinema 
> reflect the importance of the exhibition site 
> for cinema and possibilities for cross-media 
> events. The organisation and handling of space 
> on screen can reveal the conceptual reality of a 
> time, rather than just function as background. 
> Studies of the cinematic screen continue to 
> focus on ideological articulations through 
> oppositions, such as on-screen/off-screen space, 
> interior/exterior, centre/periphery, 
> inclusion/exclusion in space. Meanwhile, 
> televisual spaces continue to change both in 
> terms of on-screen representation and how the 
> television as an object inhabits space, 
> particularly in relation to its online 
> dissemination and the proliferation of products which facilitate its access.
>
> This is a call for postgraduates engaging in 
> contemporary discourses around space to submit 
> papers for the JAM 2011 conference; topics may 
> include, but are not restricted to:
>
> Cross-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary spaces
> National/International space; Globalisation
> Centrality â?? Marginality of/in space
> Gendered spaces
> Space and memory
> Critical masses (people in space)
> Space as a character
> Absence/non-place
> Time and Space in performance
> Architecture and performance
> Immersion and illusion in contemporary performance spaces
> Space in Contemporary art
> Ownership and accountability
> Ontology of space
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS deadline: Friday 30th January 2011
>
> Please send a 250-word abstract and a 50-word 
> biographical note for a fifteen-minute paper to 
> Amanda Beauchamp, Becki Hillman, Tonia 
> Kazakopoulou, Martin Oâ??Brien and James Rattee, 
> at (jam2011 /at/ reading.ac.uk). Proposals for 
> practice-as-research presentations/performances 
> are warmly invited; these have to conform to the 15-minute format.
>
> We would appreciate the distribution of this 
> call for papers and wider promotion of this 
> conference through your networks. Journeys 
> Across Media is supported by the Standing 
> Committee of University Drama Departments 
> (SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of Reading
>
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