[ecrea] Call for papers – XI MAGIS - Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School 2013

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XI MAGIS – Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School, Gorizia,
March 15-21.

The XI MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School, organized by
the University of Udine in collaboration with its network of partners
– the Universities of Amsterdam, Birkbeck-University of London, ,
Bochum, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Frankfurt, Liège, Malta,
Milano-Cattolica, Paris III, Paris-Est-Marne-la-Vallée, Pompeu
Fabra-Barcelona, Potsdam, Pisa, Sunderland and
CineGraph/CineFest-Hamburg, GRAFICS/Université de Montréal,
Associazione Culturale Maiè – will be articulated in the following
four sections:

Cinema&  Contemporary Visual Art: Media Arts and Intellectual Property
Rights. This section will focus on the relationships between the
intellectual property rights and contemporary artistic practices. As
matter of fact, on the one hand, the limits imposed by intellectual
property rights affect distribution, access, dissemination policies as
well as production and exhibition practices of audiovisual
contemporary artworks. On the other hand, since the beginning of the
20th century a deconstructive disposition toward the concepts of
authoriality, originality and authenticity could be found in the
contemporary artistic practice. From the 1990s, the advent of digital
technologies in art production emphasized these tendencies which tend
to increase the complexity of the relations between art production,
reception and ownership.

The Film Heritage: Film between Accessibility and Governance. The
section is organized by University of Udine - La Camera Ottica Film
and Video Restoration, CineGraph Hamburg, Fachhochschule Potsdam -
EMW, FH + Universität Potsdam. As a follow-up to the outcomes of the
the last edition, this year the section aims at studying how society
influences the production and the consumption of movies. In
particular, the section will focus on the historical and contemporary
ways of providing and getting access to film, with an eye to  the
manifold interdependences between film, culture and politics.
Particular attention will be devoted to the following topics:
censorship, copyrights, laws, subsidies and finances, up to the broad
and more explicitly bio-political issues.

Post-Cinema/Videogame/Animation/Comics: A New Syntax of Desires II.
Within the contemporary mediascape, new media as well as old ones
(videogames, animation, digital cinema, comics etc.) are increasingly
invested with a “libidinization process” and have become the object of
new forms (and syntaxes) of “desire”. New media create in fact new
needs, consequently giving rise to  new desires. The aim of this
section is to analyse this process  by trying to answer  the following
questions: What kind of desire is generated by these new (and renewed)
media and by their (new) forms of expression? What is the function of
desire in a technological, gamificated, software-addicted medial
society? How is the body engaged by the dynamics of desire within such
a context? [***Extended CFP available at:http://bit.ly/OUjiz9]

Cartography of Pornographic Audiovisual: Eurasian Pornography -
Variety of Histories and Complexity of Characters.  This section aims
at mapping the distinguishing features of national pornographies and
the glocalization processes through which particular national
pornographic practices are translated into transnational forms. In
particular, this year the section is dedicated to the analysis of the
development and the specific characters of Eurasian pornographies,
with a particular focus on the following issues: eurasian pornographic
industries and economies; eurasian pornographic genres and styles;
eurasian legislative systems and censorship; eurasian “auteurs”,
commercial/mainstream producers and stardoms; modes of consumption,
intellectual property and piracy within Eurasian audiences.
[***Extended CFP available at:http://bit.ly/NMTJF7]

Applicants are invited to submit abstracts addressing the main topic
and its articulations. Proposals can be: individual paper proposals
and panel proposals for the plenary sessions; workshop proposals.
Deadline for paper proposals: November 1, 2012

Length of paper proposal: 500 words max. Please make sure to attach a
short CV (150 words max).
Submit proposals to:(gospringschool /at/ gmail.com)
Further information at:http://www.filmforumfestival.it

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