[ecrea] CFP: Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture

Conference Call for Papers

Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture

July 24th-25th 2015
University of Greenwich, London

This conference seeks to explore the points of intersection at which the 
material and the digital, matter and the virtual, and embodiment and 
posthumanism push against each other in visual media. Through encounters 
with cinema, artist’s film and video, installations, and online 
archives, the aim of the conference is to conceive of new relationships 
between temporality, materiality and affectivity, tracing the ways in 
which matter becomes meaningful, or comes to resist meaning, in the 
digital age. We hope to illuminate the new ways in which digital 
experiences allow us to think and sense matter and materiality, while 
reassessing the role of non-digital media in this equation. The 
conference will trace the implications of the posthuman turn in the 
humanities, understood as encompassing a variety of non-anthropocentric 
approaches, on our understanding of matter and affect in visual culture.

The Conference particularly welcomes papers that explore the following:

•       the relationship between image and environment, the materiality 
of filmed nature, and the ‘ecological turn’ in theory and philosophy
•       non-anthropocentric and posthuman approaches to visual media, 
particularly as they affect our understanding of materiality, mortality  
and ethics
•       the relationship between posthumanism, materiality and embodiment
•       the ways in which the digital has reconfigured our understanding 
of temporality, spatiality, memory and archiving
•       the impact of the digital on engagements with non-linear 
storytelling and locative narratives.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net/

Professor David Martin-Jones, University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cca/staff/davidmartin-jones/

Dr Felicity Colman, Manchester School of Art
http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/fcolman

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by 18th April 2015 to 
(calls /at/ timadi.org) with ‘Material Environments’ in the subject line.

This Conference is sponsored by the ‘Time, Materiality and the Digital’ 
(TiMaDi) research group at the University of Greenwich, and organised by 
Matilda Mroz, Isil Onol, Stacey Pitsillides, and Rosamund Davies.


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