[ecrea] CFP: Besides the Screen: Piracy in Theory and Practice

PIRACY
IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Coventry
University, UK, 9 - 10 April 2015
http://besidesthescreen.com/?p=366

We
are looking for ongoing research projects to participate in a workshop
associated with the AHRC funded Besides
the Screen
symposium PIRACY IN THEORY & PRACTICE, to be held at Coventry
University, UK. The workshop will be on Thursday 9th April, during the
first day of the main event.

Departing
from the relation of movie piracy with the economy and politics of
content distribution, the symposium means to discuss the dynamics of
authority embedded in contemporary systems of communication and explore
how informal media practices might intervene with the development of
new technologies, frame film curating, foster or inhibit particular
scholarships, and even raise questions about the ontology of the moving
image.

Confirmed
speakers at the symposium include Adnan Hadzi (Coventry/UK), Gary Hall
(Coventry/UK), Ramon Lobato (Swinburne/Australia), HD Mabuse
(CESAR/Brazil), Gabriel Menotti (UFES/Brazil), Paul McDonald
(University of Nottingham/UK), Pedro Mizukami (FGV/Brazil), and Jonas
Andersson Schwarz (Södertörn University/Sweden).

We
welcome proposals from a wide range of topics within this universe, and
encourage the participation of PhD candidates and early career
researchers. Participation in the workshop is free of charge (as is
attendance at the symposium), but all participants must cover their own
transportation and accommodation costs.

All
participating works will be considered for publication in a special
edition of an international, blind peer-reviewed journal.

To
submit a proposal, send a text file (doc, docx, rtf) containing a short
abstract about your research (~250 words) and bio (~150 words) to the
email (besidesthescreen /at/ gmail.com)
with the subject PROPOSAL – PIRACY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.

The
deadline is 2nd Feb 2015. Selected participants will be notified by 9th
Feb 2015.

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Besides
the Screen is an international research network active since 2010,
involving participants from the UK, Mexico and Brazil. It means to
investigate the continuing development of audiovisual practices from a
materialistic perspective, deploying artistic and unorthodox
methodologies in the context of cinema studies. Its ever-expanding
constellation of topics revolves around techniques of projection, the
centrality of marginal processes, and the manifold systems of movie
storage and transmission. Information about previous events can be
found at http://besidesthescreen.com




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